CARTWRIGHT, EDMUND

(174 1823), Eng. inventor; bro. of John Cai ight (g.v.); poet, rector of Goadb} Marwood, and prebendary of Linco! later entered commerce, and invented the power-loom, for which Parliament voted him $50,000. Eng. political reformer; entered navy, and served under Hawke, Byron, and Palliser; major of Nottingham shire Militia for seventeen years; worked for ekbadarm suffrage and annual parliaments. 1603), Eng. Puritan; Lady Margaret prof. of Divinity, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, both of which offices he was deprived of by John Whitgift, vice-chancellor, because of his opinions regarding the Anglican Church; several times imprisoned for religious opinions, 43), Eng. dramatist; ed. Oxford, and took orders; junior proctor 1643; was intimate with Ben Jonson; wrote The foyal Slave, music by Lawes; acted at Christ Church before King and Queen, 1636; The Lady Errant; The Siege; and The Ordinary.