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Titus Salt
English industrialist and politician (–)
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September – 29 December ) was an English manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Early life
Titus Salt was born in to Daniel Salt, a drysalter, and Grace Smithies, daughter of Isaac Smithies, of Old Manor House, Morley where the Salt family were to live.[1] Titus attended a local dame school[2] and then Batley Grammar School.[3] In , the Salt family moved to a farm at Crofton near Wakefield and Daniel became a sheep farmer.
Titus attended “the day school connected with Salem Chapel” in Wakefield and later, the grammar school.[2]
Titus made a long-standing friend at the day school - his teacher, Enoch Harrison. In , Harrison was a guest at Salt's Mill's opening banque