Cartwright, Edmund

inventor of the power loom and the carding machine, born in Nottingham shire; bred for the Church; his invention, at first violently opposed, to his ruin for the time being, is now universally adopted; a grant of £10,000 was made him by Parliament in consider a tion of his services and in compensation for his lo es; he had a turn for versifying as well as mechanical invention (1743-1823).