Edmund Cartwright

(1743-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cartwright, Edmund, 1743-1823 NRA: Cartwright, Edmund (1743-1823) Inventor DNB: Cartwright, Edmund (1743-1823), Church of England clergyman and inventor of a power loom LBT ID: EdCartw1823 VIAF ID: 47545855 LOC ID: n84136012	B/BAP: 1743-04-24 DIED: 1823-10-30
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Clergyman, poet, and inventor of the power loom; his Armine and Elvira (1771) went through nine editions.
REFERENCES TO Edmund Cartwright: John Murray to Edmund Cartwright, 31 March 1803 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 12 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 3: ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)