Ralph Slater (1754–1830)Register: Burials 1813 - 1887, Page 167, Entry 1332 Source: LDS Film 1470949 was an English

millwright A millwright is a craftsperson or skilled tradesperson who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mecha ...

, active in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th, ostensibly known for his windmills on

the Fylde The Fylde () is a coastal plain in western Lancashire, England. It is roughly a square-shaped peninsula, bounded by Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south, the Irish Sea to the west, and the foot of the Bowland hills t ...

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, England. One of them,

Marsh Mill Marsh Mill is an 18th-century tower windmill in Thornton, Lancashire, England. It was built in 1794 by Ralph Slater for local landowner Bold Hesketh. It functioned as a corn mill until the 1920s and has been fully restored. It is a good example ...

, is a Grade II*

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. He was from Pilling.''Lancashire's Architectural Heritage: An Anthology of Fine Buildings'', John Champness (1989), p. 83

Personal life

Slater was born in 1754 in

Barton, West Lancashire Barton is a small village in the county of Lancashire, England. It is approximately west from Ormskirk, and less than west from the A5147 road. Barton sits on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, and is from the Irish Sea coast. The village li ...

. He married Margery Speakman (1742–1814) on 25 April 1775. They had four children together. He died in 1830, aged 75 or 76.

Selected works

*Marsh Mill, Thornton (1794)"Meet the miller"
– BBC Lancashire, 14 June 2007 *

Damside Windmill Damside Windmill (also known as Pilling Windmill and The Old Mill) is a tower windmill in the English village of Pilling, Lancashire. It was built in 1808 by Ralph Slater, builder of similar structures in the area, such as Marsh Mill. An earlie ...

, Pilling (1808)''The industrial archaeology of north-west England'', Owen Ashmore (1982), p. 216 *Clifton Mill,

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References

;Footnotes ;Sources * * 1754 births 1830 deaths Millwrights People from Pilling 18th-century British engineers 19th-century British engineers {{UK-bio-stub