• The Arkwright Society is a registered charity engaged in the conservation of industrial monuments in Derbyshire, focusing on the water mills of Lumsdale...
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    Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He...
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    and later spread so that by 1788 there were over 200 Arkwright-type mills in Britain. Arkwright's inventions and system of organising labour was exported...
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    Richard Arkwright junior (19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843), the son of Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was a mills owner, turned banker...
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    world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill structure is classified...
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    Site. The Cromford mill complex, owned and being restored by the Arkwright Society, was declared by Historic England as "one of the country’s 100 irreplaceable...
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    World Heritage Site. Retrieved 28 February 2013. "The Arkwright Society". The Arkwright Society. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved...
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  • The Arkwright Engineering Scholarship is an engineering award given to engineering students within the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. It has been...
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  • Mekon Award for "Best British Work" by the Society of Strip Illustration. The character of Luther Arkwright owes something to the influence of Michael...
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    in Cheshire, now in Derbyshire. His indentures, however, own the Arkwright Society and clearly record his being apprenticed at "New Mills in the Parish...
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    Scheduled Monument, currently owned and preserved by the Arkwright Society (leased to the society since the 1976 and then bequeathed to it in 1996 by Marjorie...
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    Vera Bate Lombardi (born Vera Nina Arkwright, 11 August 1883 – 22 May 1947) was a socialite and close associate of Coco Chanel and the mother of Bridget...
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    2020. "Heritage Open Days Programme 11–14 September 2008" (PDF). Arkwright Society News. 15. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2010...
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    below, now following steps and viewing platforms provided by the Arkwright Society in 1989, is "Paint Mill", mainly used to grind white barytes for the...
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    Marian Ursula Arkwright (1863 – March 1922) was an English composer. Marian Arkwright was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and received a doctorate...
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    Nathaniel Wheatcroft, a principal carrier on the canal. Today the Arkwright Society manages the Warehouse, having leased it since 1995, where two rooms...
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    Sir Joseph Arthur Arkwright MA MD MRCS FRCP FRS (22 March 1864 – 22 November 1944) was a medical doctor. He was forced to give up his work due to severe...
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    May Arkwright Hutton (July 21, 1860 – October 6, 1915) was a suffrage leader and labor rights advocate in the early history of the Pacific Northwest of...
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  • Square, Leeds, in 1904. In 1921, it moved to London by buying a house at 9 Arkwright Road, Hampstead, from the family of the late Sir Joseph Beecham, Bt. For...
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  • Heart of Empire or The Legacy of Luther Arkwright is a limited series by Bryan Talbot, published in nine monthly parts in 1999 by American company Dark...
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  • Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright (10 April 1864 – 16 August 1944) was a British musicologist. Educated at Oxford, Arkwright was the editor of "The Old English...
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    Allen, Baron Croham John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott Richard Arkwright William Armstrong Ellis Ashton Eric Auld Reginald Poynton Baker Jeremiah...
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  • missing vols. 1, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18, 21, 23. List of compositions by Henry Purcell Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright Official site of the Purcell Society...
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    decline, a long lease on the main station building was purchased by the Arkwright Society; the building has been restored and improved, re-opening as office...
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  • Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660. Below is an incomplete list of people who are or were Fellow or Foreign Member of the Royal Society. The...
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  • wind and strings. The primary organisers were Mary Venables and Marian Arkwright. The conductor (a man) was Mr. J. S. Liddle, organist of St Nicholas'...
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    Richard Arkwright Snelling (February 18, 1927 – August 13, 1991) was an American businessman, politician, and the 76th and 78th governor of Vermont from...
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    artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire, as well as the Grandville series of books...
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    subsequently preserved at Wollaton Park Industrial Museum, maintained by the Arkwright Society. Electrification of Bestwood followed in 1966, Boughton in 1967 and...
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  • The Archers (redirect from Arkwright Hall)
    accommodate Roy and his family. The farmland is home to Neil Carter's pigs. Arkwright Hall is a large Victorian mansion with a 17th-century atmosphere. The...
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