Jedediah strutt biography of barack

Jedediah Strutt, (1726 - 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt - as he spelt it - was a hosier and cotton spinner usually connected to Belper, Derbyshire, although also associated with Milford, Derby and Sth Normanton, Derbyshire.

He was the son of William Strutt and Martha Statham, and was born at South Normanton, near Alfreton in Derbyshire on 25th July 1726.

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The Strutt family of Belper was headed by Jedediah Strutt who was born into a farming family from South Normanton, Derbyshire in (Power, a).

Derbyshire-born Jedediah Strutt helped to create the world's first factories - cotton mills - along the River Derwent in the 18th Century.

This book extract covers the early life of Jedidiah Strutt, his family and fortunes and the development of the cotton mills.

Strutt was the first son of Jedediah Strutt and, after a good education The President of the Royal Society eulogised Strutt in as "author of.

The Strutts were farmers and part of a small Presbyterian community with strong Nonconformist religious views.

In 1740 at the age of fourteen, when he showed an interest in mechanics, Jedediah became an apprentice to Ralph Massey, a wheelwright in Findern.

There he lodged with the Woolatt family. Findern also happened to be the base of the Nonconformist Findern Academy with Ebenezer Latham as its headmaster. Latham, as a friend of the Woolatt family, became a key influence on Strutt's early life, encouraging him to expand his