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Arkwright
Arkwright is a surname, deriving from an archaic Old English term for a person who manufactures chests, and may refer to: People *Augustus Arkwright (1821–1887), Royal Navy officer and MP for North Derbyshire *Chris Arkwright (born 1959), English professional rugby league footballer *Francis Arkwright (politician) (1846–1915), MP for East Derbyshire 1874–1880 and Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council *Francis Arkwright (cricketer) (1905–1942), English cricketer *George Arkwright (1807–1856), English politician *Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright (1864–1944), British musicologist *Harold Arkwright (1872–1942), English cricketer *Henry Arkwright (cricketer, born 1811) (1811–1889), English amateur cricketer *Henry Arkwright (1837–1866), English amateur cricketer *Ian Arkwright (born 1959), English professional footballer *John Stanhope Arkwright (1872–1954), British politician *John Arkwright (rugby league) (1902–1990), British rugby league footballer *Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkwright Scholarships
The Arkwright Engineering Scholarship is an engineering award given to engineering students within the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. It has been running since 1991 and, as part of The Smallpeice Trust, has awarded over 6,000 scholarships to date. Named after Sir Richard Arkwright, the “father of the modern industrial factory system”, Arkwright is the largest and most prestigious Scholarship scheme of its type in the UK. Selection The scholarships are awarded through rigorous selection to the highest-calibre students from all educational backgrounds to support them through their A Levels, Scottish Highers or International Baccalaureate. Students apply during year 11 (England and Wales), S4 (Scotland) and year 12 (Northern Ireland) before taking their GCSE or Scottish ational 5Standard Grade exams. Scholarships begin at the start of year 12 (England & Wales) / S5 (Scotland) / year 13 (NI). Scholarships consist of an annual financial award to the Scholar and to their scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Arkwright
Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame after it was adapted to use water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to 'cotton lap' prior to spinning. He was the first to develop factories housing both mechanised carding and spinning operations. Arkwright's achievement was to combine power, machinery, semi-skilled labour and the new raw material of cotton to create mass-produced yarn. His organisational skills earned him the accolade "father of the modern industrial factory system," notably through the methods developed in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire (now preserved as part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site). Life and family Richard Arkwright was born in Preston, Lancashire, England on 23 December 1732, the youngest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright
''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' is a limited series comic book written and drawn by Bryan Talbot. The story is adult in tone, with many mythological, historical and political references, and a little explicit sex. English writer Warren Ellis calls ''Arkwright'' "probably the single most influential graphic novel to have come out of Britain to date... probably Anglophone comics' single most important experimental work." Publishing history Luther Arkwright's genesis owes something to the influence of Michael Moorcock'sJohnston, Rich"Bryan Talbot's Legend Of Luther Arkwright Out Today & I Just Read It,"''Bleeding Cool'' (July 14, 2022). Jerry Cornelius stories, though Moorcock and Talbot agree that the similarities between the characters are limited. The character made his first appearance in the mid-1970s in "The Papist Affair", a short strip for '' Brainstorm Comix'' where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing biker nuns to recover the sacred relics of St. Ado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Arkwright (1781–1832)
Richard Arkwright (30 September 1781 – 28 March 1832) was an English politician. He was the oldest son of Richard Arkwright (died 1843) of Willersley Castle, Derbyshire, and grandson of the entrepreneur Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), whose invention of the spinning frame and other industrial innovations made him very wealthy. Young Richard was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He and his five brothers were endowed as landed gentry by their father, who gave Richard £30,000 on his marriage in 1803 (equivalent to £ in ). He managed his father's estates at Normanton Turville (near Thurlaston, Leicestershire) and Sutton Scarsdale in Derbyshire. Living at Normanton Turville, he served as an officer in the yeomanry, and as Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Arkwright Junior
Richard Arkwright junior (19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843), the son of Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was a mills owner, turned banker, investor and financier (creditor) of many successful state and private entreprises of the British Industrial Revolution which his father had helped to catalyse. Among his debtors were Samuel Oldknow of Marple and Mellor, his friend. He was one of ten known British millionaires in 1799. Biography Richard was born in Bolton. His mother, Patience Holt, died when he was only a few months old, and his father, Sir Richard Arkwright, raised him on his own until he was six, then married Margaret Biggens, with whom he had a daughter, Susan and Mary Anne. His father patented the water frame, a roller-spinning machine powered by water. This was the patented prototype and archetype of a British Industrial Revolution, revolutionary wave of mass-production machines for cloth manufacture. Recognition followed of the economy of scale of bulk, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkwright Town
Arkwright Town, commonly referred to as Arkwright, is a village in Sutton cum Duckmanton, North East Derbyshire, England, that is notable for having moved its location in the early 1990s.Metropolitan Housing Trust stakeholders' newsletter, October 2005 Despite its name, the village has no official town status. Located between Chesterfield and Bolsover on the A632 road, it was formerly a coal mining village. Arkwright Colliery closed in 1988 and it was then discovered that the community was threatened by emissions of methane gas that caused some of its houses to be evacuated. The whole village was owned by British Coal and a decision was made in cooperation with Derbyshire County Council to transfer ownership of the 52 properties to a housing trust, construct a new village of 56 properties to the north of the site affected by methane, and move all the residents. Construction was completed by 1995 when the old Arkwright Town was demolished. Part of the deal with British Coal inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkwright, New York
Arkwright is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 1,000. The town is named after Richard Arkwright, the inventor of a spinning device. Arkwright is in the northeastern quadrant of Chautauqua County and is southeast of the city of Dunkirk. History Settlement began ''circa'' 1807. The town of Arkwright was established in 1829 from the towns of Villenova and Pomfret. Dairy farms and cheesemaking were important in the early economy. Arkwright was one of the first towns in New York to form a cheese cooperative. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.17%, is water. New York State Route 83 is a major east-west highway through the town. Canadaway Creek passes through the south part of the town. Arkwright Falls is a picturesque and secluded waterfall along Canadaway Creek, along property off Park Road owned by descendants of Stanley Drozdiel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Arkwright
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 the United States. Biography May Arkwright Hutton, who has been described as an orphan by some sources, is now often believed to have been illegitimate. She was raised by her paternal grandfather, Aza, in Ohio. Aza, who was blind, enjoyed political meetings and May often accompanied him. In 1883, she moved to Idaho, where she owned and operated a boarding house in Kellogg. In 1887, she married Levi "Al" Hutton, one of her customers. They moved to Wallace, Idaho where she oversaw the dining hall of the Wallace Hotel and her husband worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad. May and Al were part of a group of miners that struck it rich when discovering a vast silver mine. When miners dynamited the Bunker Hill and Sullivan's mine concentrator in Wardner, Idaho, Al was the engineer of the train used to deliver the dynamite. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Arkwright
Ian Arkwright (born 18 September 1959) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Wrexham and Torquay United. He played as a winger, and the majority of his League career was spent with Wrexham in the early 1980s. Career Arkwright was born in Shafton, Barnsley, and began his career as an apprentice with Wolverhampton Wanderers, turning professional in September 1977. He failed to establish himself at Wolves however, and played just four times in total. His debut was as a substitute in a 1–0 win over Queens Park Rangers on 30 September 1978, but after starting the next three games, never featured for the first team again. He was transferred to Wrexham for a fee of £100,000 in March 1980. In four years at the Racecourse Ground, he made 104 league appearances, scoring 10 goals. Towards the end of his time at Wrexham and of his league career, in March 1984, he played two games on loan to Torquay United, away to Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Arkwright
Paul Thomas Arkwright (born 2 March 1962) is a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2015–18. Early life Arkwright was born in Bolton, and grew up in Lancashire. He is the son of Thomas Arkwright and Muriel Hague. He grew up in Bolton. He attended the independent school Ampleforth College. He gained a BA in English in 1983 from Trinity College, Cambridge. Career Arkwright joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1987. He was based in West Berlin (British Military Government near the Olympiastadion) from 1988–1991, seeing the overthrow of the Berlin Wall at first hand. From 1993–1997 he was a First Secretary to the UK Mission to the UN. From 1997–1998 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France; this led to him being a First Secretary from 1998–2001 at Paris. From 2001–2005 he was part of the UK Delegation to NATO in Brussels. From 2006–2009 he achieved a senior post in the FCO, becoming Head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Arkwright (cricketer)
Francis Godfrey Bertram Arkwright (30 January 1905 – 1 July 1942) was an English army officer and first-class cricketer. Arkwright was a right-handed batsman (cricket), batsman. Family Arkwright was the son of Bertram Harry Godfrey Arkwright (1879–1949) and his wife, Grace Emma Julia Arkwright (née Hurt) (c.1875–1950). Robert Arkwright was his elder brother. His grandfather was the Reverend William Harry Arkwright, the older brother of the politician Francis Arkwright (politician), Francis Arkwright (1846–1915). Cricket career Arkwright played in four first-class cricket, first-class matches, representing Hampshire County Cricket Club, Hampshire in three of those during the 1923 County Championship season. He made his first-class debut for the club against Lancashire County Cricket Club, Lancashire, playing two further games that season for the club against Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire, with his final match for Hampshire coming against Lancashire. Arkwright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arkwright (rugby League)
John Arkwright (3 December 1902 – 20 January 1990), also known by the nickname of "Big Jack", was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He played at representative level for Great Britain England and Lancashire, and at club level for St. Helens and Warrington, as a or , i.e. number 8 or 10, or, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums, he is Warrington's oldest player aged-42.French, Ray (1989). ''100 Great Rugby League Players''. pg. 9. MacDonald Queen Anne Press. Playing career International honours Jack Arkwright, won caps for England while at St Helens in 1933 against Other Nationalities, while at Warrington in 1936 against France, and Wales, in 1937 against France, in 1938 against France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Warrington in 1936 against Australia (2 matches), and New Zealand, and in 1937 against Australia (3 matches). During the 1936 tour Arkwright achieved the unusual distinction of being dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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