1. Samuel Greg was an Irish-born businessman and industrialist of the Industrial Revolution and a pioneer of the factory system.
16 Facts About Samuel Greg
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Samuel Greg was born in Belfast, Ireland, the second son, and one of thirteen children, born to Elizabeth and Thomas Samuel Greg of Belfast.
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The son of a Scottish blacksmith, in the 1740s Thomas Samuel Greg bought a small ship which carried salted provisions, linen and butter to the West Indies and returned with flaxseed.
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At the age of eight, Samuel Greg was sent to live with his maternal uncle, Robert Hyde, at Ardwick Hall, Manchester, in the heart of England.
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In 1789 Samuel Greg married Hannah Lightbody, the daughter of a wealthy Liverpool merchant.
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Samuel Greg was active as a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.
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Samuel 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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Samuel Greg couldn't be a public hypocrite so she kept quiet.
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Hannah Samuel Greg's influence has been seen in what might otherwise be seen as a hard-headed, if unusual, decision to invest in improved conditions so as to make the new and regimented mill work attractive.
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In Styal Samuel Greg developed what came to be considered a "model village".
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Over half of Samuel Greg's workforce were poor and orphaned children.
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The children were overseen by Hannah Samuel Greg, who delivered the services of a doctor, two teachers and two singing masters.
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In 1795, with his brother Thomas, Samuel Greg had inherited, and continued to operate as a slave plantation, the Hillsborough Estate on the West Indian island of Dominica, from his paternal uncle John Greg.
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In 1832, Samuel Greg was attacked by a stag in the grounds of Quarry Bank Mill.
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Samuel Greg never recovered from the attack and died two years later.