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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.
- William, George, Joseph, Elizabeth and Martha
- English
- 7 May 1797
20 de jul. de 2011 · Jedediah Strutt’s first cotton mill. It is generally assumed Strutt began building his first mill in Belper in 1776. This is the date accepted by most authorities. However, the evidence of Strutt’s land purchases puts this in doubt.
Jedediah Strutt, (1726 - 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt - as he spelt it - was a hosier and cotton spinner usually connected to Belper, Derbyshire, although also associated with Milford, Derby and Sth Normanton, Derbyshire. He was the son of William Strutt and Martha Statham, and was born at South Normanton, near Alfreton in Derbyshire on 25th July 1726.
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.
This thesis aims to place the industrial family of the Strutts of Belper geographically to investigate the spaces the family addressed, navigated, and shaped between 1850 and 1899. The earlier members of the Strutt family are notable for their role as industrial pioneers and paternalists and their contribution to the ideas and actions of
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. Strutt was born in 1726 into an established farming family at Blackwell, near Alfreton.
Industrial pioneer Jedediah Strutt built one of the world’s first water-powered cotton spinning mills here in 1776 – and Strutt’s North Mill, now the Derwent Valley Visitor Centre – was rebuilt in 1803 using the world’s first fire proof iron frame, the template for modern high-rise engineering.
