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Lee's character was described in an obituary: "Mr. Lee became early imbued with a love of the sciences, and was afterwards remarkable for the extent and precision of his acquirements in them. He had a quick and almost intuitive perception of the advantages to be derived from applying to useful
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purposes the great inventions that distinguished the era in which he lived, and the rare faculty of directing them, with energy and perseverance, to the fulfilment of extensive and important designs."
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In 1803 Lee married Mary, daughter of the Revd John Ewart of
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19:(1761 – 5 August 1826) was a British industrialist. His
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Lancashire Amalgamated Weavers' Association
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431:William Roberts & Co of Nelson
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891:Amalgamated Weavers' Association
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321:Sidney Stott (later Sir Philip)
50:In the 1780s he was a clerk at
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724:Lancashire Cotton Corporation
698:Thomas Whitehead and Brothers
401:W & J Galloway & Sons
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502:John Hetherington & Sons
386:Clayton, Goodfellow & Co
186:UK public library membership
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1125:John Kay (flying shuttle)
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567:Textile Machinery Makers
547:British Northrop Loom Co
466:Woolstenhulmes & Rye
416:John Musgrave & Sons
296:Bradshaw Gass & Hope
1084:Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
744:James Burton & Sons
734:Combined Egyptian Mills
572:Tweedales & Smalley
213:. 1827 – Great Britain.
1176:British industrialists
780:Magnetic ring spinning
775:DREF friction spinning
456:Willans & Robinson
361:Bateman & Sherratt
178:10.1093/ref:odnb/16285
104:Ditherington Flax Mill
957:Mule spinners' cancer
926:The Textile Institute
896:Cardroom Amalgamation
765:Textile manufacturing
577:T. Wildman & Sons
562:Taylor, Lang & Co
522:Howard & Bullough
512:John Pilling and Sons
446:Urmson & Thompson
356:Ashworth & Parker
86:His friends included
940:Employment practices
758:Industrial processes
376:Buckley & Taylor
301:F.W. Dixon & Son
952:Kissing the shuttle
729:Bagley & Wright
668:George Augustus Lee
658:William Houldsworth
628:Nathaniel Eckersley
497:Dobson & Barlow
441:Scott & Hodgson
406:Benjamin Goodfellow
391:Earnshaw & Holt
208:George Augustus Lee
17:George Augustus Lee
608:Hugh Hornby Birley
552:Pemberton & Co
537:Mather & Platt
517:Harling & Todd
482:Brooks & Doxey
426:Petrie of Rochdale
421:J & W McNaught
366:Boulton & Watt
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855:Lancashire boiler
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673:Charles Macintosh
613:Joseph Brotherton
184:(Subscription or
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825:Roberts Loom
693:John Rylands
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638:William Gray
633:John Fielden
618:James Burton
436:George Saxon
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845:Rapier loom
820:Water frame
688:Robert Peel
648:Samuel Greg
643:Hannah Greg
603:Hugh Birley
586:Mill owners
56:cotton mill
45:Harriet Lee
21:cotton mill
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1008:Manchester
1003:Lancashire
998:Derbyshire
947:More looms
850:Dandy loom
739:Courtaulds
678:Hugh Mason
284:Architects
274:Lancashire
188:required.)
144:References
96:James Watt
41:Sophia Lee
31:Early life
1048:Yorkshire
1033:Stockport
978:LCC mills
396:Fairbairn
60:Northwich
1093:Pioneers
1038:Tameside
1023:Rochdale
993:Cheshire
815:Steaming
532:Asa Lees
223:Page 401
127:Troqueer
37:John Lee
1057:Museums
1028:Salford
1018:Preston
810:Carding
68:Salford
25:Salford
983:Bolton
277:cotton
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121:Family
1043:Wigan
311:Stott
233:2002.
988:Bury
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