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Samuel Oldknow ( 1756 – 1828 ) was an English cotton manufacturer.
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After 1790, Samuel Oldknow transformed much of this lifestyle, with the construction of lime kilns and mills.
In the area closest to the river there was a mill built by Samuel Oldknow, it is now ruined and overgrown.
* Samuel Oldknow, the industrialist who created a huge textile empire and became Britain's leading manufacturer of muslin moved to Marple after serving an apprenticeship in Nottingham.
The construction of the canal and tramway was promoted by Samuel Oldknow ( the largest shareholder ) with much of the finance being provided by Richard Arkwright Junior of Cromford, Derbyshire.
In 1792, frustrated in administering the immature and, as yet, unreliable machinery, he left Boulton and Watt to work in partnership with Samuel Oldknow in a cotton bleaching and calico printing venture.
Samuel Oldknow was a significant businessman and mill owner in Mellor during the Industrial Revolution.
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.
Samuel Oldknow Jnr, the eldest son of Samuel Oldknow Sr and Margaret Foster, was born 5 October 1756 in Anderton, near Chorley, Lancashire, and died 18 September 1828 at Mellor Lodge, Derbyshire.
The Oldknow brothers ' fabrics became favoured in London, where they formed a business agreement with the merchant Samuel Salte, this was the start of his rise to great success.
* Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwights, The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple-George Unwin ( with chapters by Arthur Hulme & George Taylor )-1968 ( 2nd Edition )
In 1801, Samuel Oldknow, then the Chairman of the Peak Forest Canal Company, offered an Edward Stelfox £ 50 towards the cost of building two lime kilns on the banks of the Ashton Canal on the condition that he burned limestone brought along the Peak Forest Canal.
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In 1756, on the recommendation of Samuel Foote, she became a member of the Drury Lane company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs Pritchard and Kitty Clive.
* Samuel Knox ( 1756 – 1832 ), born in County Armagh, Presbyterian clergyman, school principal, and author.
It was one of a number of such forts built from the Potomac River south to North Carolina, and was commanded by Captain Samuel Harris in 1756, the year in which George Washington made a tour of Fort Mayo and several other forts on the Virginia frontier.
* The Green-Room Squabble or a Battle Royal between the Queen of Babylon and the Daughter of Darius a 1756 play by Samuel Foote is lost.
Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.
In 1756 he returned to Boston to continue his legal preparations with Samuel Prat, and he was admitted to the bar in 1757.
* Samuel Smith ( Upper Canada politician ) ( 1756 – 1826 ), American-born Canadian politician ; Administrator of Upper Canada, 1817 – 1818
His mother's name was Diana, and his sister's name was Sarah, three years younger than Samuel Jr. Hearne joined the British Royal Navy in 1756 at the age of 12 as midshipman under the fighting captain Samuel Hood.
Samuel Smith ( 27 December 1756 – 20 October 1826 ) was a Loyalist British army officer and politician.
It was commanded by Colonel Andrew Van Swearingen ( 1741 – 1793 ) and later by his son-in-law, Captain Samuel Brady ( 1756 – 1795 ), the famous leader of Brady's Rangers.
Samuel Jordan Cabell ( December 15, 1756 – August 4, 1818 ) was an American Revolutionary war officer and Democratic-Republican United States Congressman from 1795 to 1803.
James J. Coffin from the British whaling ship ' Transit ' and named after Samuel Enderby ( 1756 – 1829 ), owner of a London whaling company.
One of these specific applications, the carving of wooden figureheads for ships, started in the Americas as early as 1750 and a century later helped launch the careers of Samuel McIntyre and the country's first famous sculptor, William Rush ( 1756 – 1833 ) of Philadelphia ,.
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* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
* 986 – A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of the Gate of Trajan by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron.
* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.
In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.
In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).
The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.
Additionally, though the Chronicler's principal source is the Deuteronomistic History, coming primarily, as stated above, from the books of 2 Samuel and 1 – 2 Kings and other public records and sources ( see above ), the Chronicler also uses other biblical sources, particularly from the Pentateuch, as redacted and put together by P ( the Priestly Source ).
Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.
In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.
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