1. Hannah Greg was a member of the Liverpool Library, England's first subscription library, and the Octonian Society.
28 Facts About Hannah Greg
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Hannah Greg was the youngest of the three surviving children, all girls.
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Hannah Greg was eleven, studying in Henry Holland's School in nearby Ormskirk, when her father died, leaving her one-third of his wealth, held in trust until she was 21.
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Hannah Greg had children of a similar age, so she could attend Fleetwood House school in Stoke Newington a mile further north, and worship with the family at the Unitarian Church on the Green.
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Hannah Greg learnt debating skills and read widely within a critical Unitarian framework.
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Hannah Greg had been born in Belfast in 1758; being known to be Irish was a further hindrance to progression.
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Hannah Greg's father was a ship-owner who had land in the West Indies, and thirteen children to support.
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Hannah Greg sent two of his sons, Thomas and Samuel, to live with relatives in England; Samuel Greg was adopted at eight years old by his maternal uncle, Robert Hyde, a textile merchant and manufacturer.
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Hannah Greg had a loom shop in Eyam, and built Quarry Bank mill to provide a safe source of yarn.
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Quarry Bank Mill in Styal was profitable and Hannah Greg was in need of a wife.
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Hannah Lightbody and Samuel Greg married in 1789, and she left Liverpool to make a life in Manchester.
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Hannah Greg introduced her husband, a Presbyterian by upbringing, to the Unitarians who attended Cross Street Chapel in Manchester.
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The Hannah Greg family had mills in Reddish, Calver, Bowlas, Bollington, Lancaster and Caton.
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The children were overseen by Hannah Greg, who delivered the services of a doctor, two teachers and two singing masters; in return, she expected weekly attendance at the Anglican parish church.
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The Hannah Greg children were expected to take part in the teaching, as it was part of her dissenting belief that people should mix together, be frugal and accept their responsibilities to others.
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Hannah Greg died on 4 February 1828 but Quarry Bank maintained the system until 1847.
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Hannah Greg's life was shaped by British Unitarianism, a denomination of English Dissenters who have always valued education for girls as much as for boys.
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Hannah Greg had firm beliefs that men could not progress outside their God ordained social class.
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Hannah Greg belonged to wealthy mercantile middle class which in her eyes was the most fortunate place to be.
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Hannah Greg believed that she had a duty to look after the education of her workers so they could progress.
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Jane Hannah Greg found refuge at Quarry Bank from loyalist retribution.
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Hannah Greg was living with Hannah and Samuel when she died in September 1817.
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Elizabeth Hannah Greg married William Rathbone V, of the Liverpool mercantile family.
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Hannah Greg founded the first public wash-houses in the United Kingdom in the wake of the 1832 Liverpool cholera epidemic.
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Hannah Greg's sister Elizabeth married Thomas Hodgson, who took part in the Atlantic slave trade; their son Adam Hodgson was a founding member of the Liverpool Anti-slavery Society in 1822.
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Hannah Greg was liberal and compassionate by nature, and all her friends were active campaigners to stop the slave trade and to move forward the emancipation of the slaves in the West Indies and America.
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In reality, Hannah Greg did not say anything publicly about this because, apart from anything else, Samuel Greg inherited slave plantations.
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Hannah Greg couldn't be a public hypocrite so she kept quiet.