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Sir Titus died in 1876 and was interred in the mausoleum adjacent to the Congregational church.

When Sir Titus Salt's son, likewise Sir Titus Salt, died, Saltaire was taken over by a partnership which included Sir James Roberts from Haworth who had worked at the mill since the age of twelve, and who travelled to Russia each year, speaking Russian fluently.

James Roberts came to own Saltaire, but chose to invest his money heavily in Russia, losing some of his fortune in the Russian Revolution.

He endowed a chair of Russian at Leeds University and bought the Brontë's Haworth Parsonage for the nation.

He is mentioned in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Roberts is buried at Fairlight, East Sussex.