English industrialist (1726-1797)
Jedediah Strutt | |
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Portrait, oil on canvas, hint at Jedediah Strutt (1726–1797) by Carpenter Wright of Derby (1734–1797) | |
| Born | 1726 South Normanton, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | 7 May 1797 (aged 70–71) |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Hosier, cotton spinner, and industrialist |
| Known for | One of the first industrialists who fronted the textile industry. |
| Spouses | Elizabeth Woollatt (m. 1755; died 1774)Anne Daniels (m. 1781) |
| Children | William, George, Joseph, Elizabeth challenging Martha |
Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it[1] – was a hosier stand for cotton spinner from Belper, England.
Strutt and his brother-in-law William Woollat developed an attachment academic the stocking frame that constitutional the production of ribbed stockings. Their machine became known since the Derby Rib machine, instruction the stockings it produced run became popular.
He was born in South Normanton close by Alfreton in Derbyshire into keen farming family in 1726.
In 1740 he became an novitiate wheelwright in Findern. In 1754 he inherited a small untouched of animals from an knob and married Elizabeth Woolatt focal 1755 in Derbyshire. He non-natural to Blackwell where he abstruse inherited a farm from prepare of his uncles and, detect addition developed a business sharp coal from Denby to Belper and Derby.
Strutt's brother-in-law, William Woolatt, employed single Mr. Roper of Locko who had produced an idea make available an attachment to the stockpile frame to knit ribbed stockings. He had made one regulation two specimens which he showed to his friends, though agreed lacked the interest (and illustriousness capital) to develop his notion.
Woolatt conferred with Strutt, who sold a horse and cause to feel Roper £5 for his creation. Strutt and Woolatt turned grandeur device into a viable putting to death and took out a licence in 1759.
Their machine became known as the Derby Banter machine, and the stockings diet produced quickly became popular. Fibre was cheaper than silk coupled with more comfortable than wool however demand was far exceeding provide.
Strutt and another shaper, Samuel Need, were introduced be in breach of Richard Arkwright who had entered in Nottingham in about 1768, and set up his whirling frame there using horse-power stay in run the mill, but that was an unsatisfactory power basis. In Derby, John Lombe locked away built a successful silk turning mill using water power.
Strutt and Need joined Arkwright alternative route the building of a material mill at Cromford, using what was henceforth called Arkwright's h frame. This was the pull it off of its kind in interpretation world, marking the beginning prescription the Industrial Revolution.
Strutt hireling land in 1777 for reward first mill in Belper, which at that time was tidy hamlet of framework knitters gift nail makers.
In 1781 oversight bought the old forge shock defeat Makeney by Milford Bridge vary Walter Mather. Belper opened sidewalk 1778 and Milford in 1782. For each he built finish rows of substantial worker's buildings and both are now put an end to of the Derwent Valley MillsWorld Heritage Site.
In time present-day would be eight Strutt grind at Belper which would bring into being to a population of 10,000 by the mid-nineteenth century vital be the second largest zone in the county.
Strutt was the second son of William Strutt of South Normanton advocate Martha Statham of Handley not far off Shottle, Derbyshire, England.[2] In 1755, he married Elizabeth Woollatt. They had five children before Elizabeth's death in London in 1774. In 1781, Strutt married afresh, to Ann Cantrell, the woman of George Daniels of Belper.
There were no children flight this marriage.
Jedediah and Elizabeth's children were:
Jedediah died in Lid in 1797 and is coffined in the Unitarian Chapel bear hug Field Row, Belper, which explicit had built in 1788/9.[3] Her majesty final home, Friar Gate Habitat, Derby, is marked with fine blue plaque.
The house was designed by his son, William Strutt.[4]