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Personal Details

Born: 25 March 1887 in Hanmer, Flintshire, and baptised on 10 April the same year in Bronington Parish Church.

Family: He was the third of seven children born to Edward Cartwright, a farm labourer, and his wife Selina. He married Matilda Hill on 18 July 1914 in St. Mary’s Chapel, Brecon, Breconshire, Wales and together they had one child, Edward.

Residence: In 1891 he lived with his parents and siblings at Wood Cottage, Bettisfield, Flintshire, Wales; in 1901 he was living at his place of work – Pigeon House, Halghton, Flintshire. Whilst he was in the armed forces, his wife was living at 7 John Street, Brecon. In 1939 he was living at 7 Brownlow Street, Oswestry, Shropshire.

Employment: In 1901 he was employed on a farm as a cow boy. Edward was an engine driver at Brecon & Radnor Asylum when he enlisted; he was a haulage contractor in 1939.

Died:In 1976 in Oswestry.

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Edmund Cartwright

British reverend, poet, and lifelong inventor Edmund Cartwright was born on April 24, 1743 in Marnham, Nottingham, England and would later invent a device that set in motion dramatic changes affecting today’s worldwide textile industry.

Cartwright’s parents were wealthy landowners in Marnham, and he and his four brothers were well educated. At least three of them would become well-renowned in their chosen professions. Edmund’s brother, John Cartwright, was a radical leader with England’s parliamentary reform movement at the turn of the century, and his brother George was a trader and explorer of Labrador.

Edmund Cartwright was himself a graduate of University College at Oxford. He pursued a master’s degree with Oxford’s Magdalen College, finishing his MA in 1766. From there, he became rector of a Leicestershire church, married, and continued to progress in his career with the church, taking on the curacy of Brampton in 1772, followed by his appointment as prebendary of Lincoln cathedral in 1786, a position he held for the rest of his life.

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Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823)

Edmund Cartwright ©Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor of the power loom, one of the key steps in the mechanisation of textile manufacture.

Edmund Cartwright was born on 24 April 1743 in Nottinghamshire, the son of a landowner. He was educated at Oxford University and began a career in the church, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1786 until his death.

In 1784, Cartwright visited Richard Arkwright's cotton-spinning mills at Cromford in Derbyshire and was inspired to construct a similar machine for weaving. His idea was scorned by many who thought that such a complicated procedure would be impossible to automate. Undeterred by these comments, and his complete inexperience in the field, he began work. The first power loom, patented in 1785, was extremely crude but improvements were made in subsequent versions. Cartwright now established a factory in Doncaster for his looms, but his ignorance of industry and commerce meant that the factory never became much more than a testing site for new inventions. In 179