Category
page 1British businesspeople in the textile industry
Robert Owen
Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
Richard Arkwright
textile entrepreneur; developer of the spinning frame (known as the water frame)
John Lombe
silk manufacturer
Titus Salt
English industrialist and philanthropist (1803-1876)
David Alliance, Baron Alliance
British businessman and politician (1932-2025)
Samuel Courtauld
English industrialist and art collector
Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet
British politician (1750-1830)