# REDIRECT Arkwright Scholarships

In the UK, the Arkwright Scholarships Trust awards two-year Scholarships to students who are taking GCSE / Scottish Standard Grade in Design & Technology.

The Arkwright Engineering Scholarships support students through their A levels / Scottish Highers and encourage them to study engineering or a related area of design at a top university or through a high-quality industrial apprenticeship.

Richard Arkwright junior was uninterested in the cotton business, and after the death of his father the Arkwright family ceased to invest in the industry.

Cromford Mill was purchased by The Arkwright Society in 1979 after the site was abandoned by its previous owners, a dyes and paints company.

The Arkwright Society, set up after the bicentenary of Cromford Mill, now owns the site and works to preserve the industrial heritage of the area.

Four years later, after seeing his patents restored temporarily, in another, definitive court battle, Thomas Highs, a remorseful John Kay, Kay's wife and the widow of James Hargreaves all testified that Arkwright had stolen their inventions.

The school's four houses are named after Fearne, Arkwright ( Sir Richard Arkwright ), Wright ( Joseph Wright of Derby ), and Gell.

Bonsall inhabitants have been involved in the textile industry, before and after Richard Arkwright.

Lewis's invention is later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton, although this comes about under great suspicion after a fire at Daniel Bourn's factory in Leominster which specifically uses Paul and Wyatt's spindles.

This closed in March 1963, the line itself in September 1966 to passengers and completely in 1981 after remaining partially in use serving Arkwright colliery near Staveley-the route today is part of the Trans-Pennine Trail.

Gowrie is named after Brigadier-General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie ( 1872 – 1955 ), Governor-General of Australia from 1936-1944.

In 1778 Jedediah Strutt built cotton spinning mills after the pattern developed by Richard Arkwright having been in partnership with him when he built the mill at Cromford.

The town is named after Richard Arkwright, the inventor of a spinning device.

The Cromford sough that Sir Richard Arkwright subsequently used to power his mill at Cromford took thirty years to dig, and was still being extended a century after it was begun.

Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame, was born in Preston.

Sir Richard Arkwright ( 23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792 ), was an Englishman who, although the patents were eventually overturned, is often credited with inventing the spinning frame, later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power.

Sir Richard Arkwright, oil on canvas, Mather Brown, 1790.

* Sir Richard Arkwright lived at Rock House in Cromford, opposite his original mill.

The town also has a grand coach house originally built for Sir Richard Arkwright, but now converted into a holiday cottage.

* The complete refurbishment of the Newton and Arkwright buildings and the construction of a glazed link building between the two was completed in 2011 and officially opened by Sir Michael Parkinson.

Thus the Forward Sir Percy, a synchronized low-level knee attack, the Double Arkwright wi ' Ankle Lever, the Heckmondwycke with Reverse Spin and the ever controversial Triple Arkwright.

Richard Arkwright junior ( 19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843 ), the son of the famous Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was the financier ( creditor ) of Samuel Oldknow of Marple and Mellor and a personal friend.

* 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor ( b. 1732 )

Lewis's invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright in his water frame and Samuel Crompton in his spinning mule.

To capitalise upon these advances, it took a class of entrepreneurs, of which the most famous is Richard Arkwright.

* December 23 – Richard Arkwright, English inventor ( d. 1792 )

* Richard Arkwright invents the spinning frame.

In 1771, Richard Arkwright used waterwheels to power looms for the production of cotton cloth, his invention becoming known as the water frame.

The modern factory, or ' mill ', system was born here in the 18th century to accommodate the new technology for spinning cotton developed by Richard Arkwright.

Water-power was first introduced to England by John Lombe at his silk mill in Derby in 1719, but it was Richard Arkwright who applied water-power to the process of producing cotton in the 1770s.

Arkwright-type mills were so successful that sometimes they were copied without paying royalties to Richard Arkwright.

The water frame for spinning cotton was developed by Richard Arkwright and patented in 1769.

In 1771, Richard Arkwright took a lease on land in Cromford.

After Arkwright died in 1792 his son, Richard Arkwright junior, took over and sold most of his cotton mills outside Cromford and Matlock Bath.

Belper was already an established village with its own market before Jedediah Strutt began building mills, so he was not required to have as active a role in developing the community into a self-sustaining entity as Richard Arkwright did at Cromford.

In 1788, Richard Arkwright asked William Jessop to estimate the cost of building a canal connecting the mills at Cromford to Langley Mill.

The proposal – backed by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Richard Arkwright junior, and several Manchester bankers – was ambitious ; it was expected that steam locomotives would be used on the line, even though the technology was in its infancy and George Stephenson did not build his revolutionary Rocket until 1829.

New Lanark in Scotland – also a World Heritage Site – was directly influenced by Richard Arkwright and the developments in the Derwent Valley ; Lanark was identified as a potential site for a mill on a visit by David Dale and Arkwright in 1784.

Many of the technologies developed in the Derwent Valley Mills endured and were adopted for other textile industries ; until the mid-20th century, carding was still performed with machinery invented by Richard Arkwright.

The Derwent Valley Mills pioneered worker's housing as well as much technology developed by Richard Arkwright, producing an industrial landscape and heralding industrial towns.

In other industries, engine-pumping was less common, but Richard Arkwright used an engine to provide additional power for his cotton mill.

The invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton.