Edmund Carwright

rtwright was an English clergyman and inventor of the power loom, one of the key steps in the mechanisation of textile manufacture.
Edmund Cartwright was born on 24 April 1743 in Nottinghamshire, the son of a landowner. He was educated at Oxford University and began a career in the church, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1786 until his death.
In 1784, Cartwright visited Richard Arkwright's cotton-spinning mills at Cromford in Derbyshire and was inspired to construct a simila