DYER

Joseph Che borough ( son of Nathaniel Dyer, captain Rhode island navy ). b. Stonning ton Point, Connecticut 15 Nov. 1780; machine maker at Camden Town, London 1811–16, at Manchester 1816–42 where he introduced inventions which gave a great impulse to the cotton manufacture 1817; an original director of Bank of Manchester 1828 which stopped payment 31 Dec. 1842 when he lost £96,000; established machine-making works at Gamaches, Somme, France 1832 gave them up 1848 after losing £120,000; author of Remarks on Education 1850, and 5 other pamphlets. d. at house of his son Frederick Dyer near Manchester 3 May 1871. R. A. Smith’s Centenary of science in Manchester (1883) 298–325.