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Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England. Strutt and his brother-in-law William Woollat developed an attachment to the stocking frame that allowed the production of ribbed stockings.
13 de mar. de 2024 · The sale of a horse for £5 was the unlikely catalyst for Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797) to become yet another Derbyshire industrialist who could lay claim to be one of the founders of the modern factory system.
Jedediah Strutt, 1726-97, was the son of a prosperous farmer and maltster. He was born in South Normanton and moved to Findern near Derby, when he became apprenticed to a wheelwright.
Jedediah died in 1797, leaving three sons, William George and Joseph to continue the very successful business interests in Derby, but Belper became the “Kingdom” of the Strutts. Jedediah Strutt and his sons transformed the economy of Belper, the lives of the people and the appearance of the town.
Jedediah Strutt. 1726-1797. English inventor who developed a ribbing machine to produce stockings. While a seemingly minor item of clothing, stockings were nearly universally used and often expensive.
The original North Mill, completed in 1786 by Jedediah Strutt, was destroyed by fire in 1803. Its replacement was built in 1804 by his son, William Strutt, on the foundations of the old mill and is one of the oldest surviving examples of an iron-framed 'fire-proof' building in the world.
Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797) was one of leading pioneer industrialists of the 18th century. He was born at South Normanton, Derbyshire, in the family of small farmers who belonged to a Presbyterian community with strong Nonconformist religious views.
