Entries for the tag ‘Hirst, William (1777-1858)’
Huddersfield-born Leeds textile manufacturer and innovator, ruined inter alia by land speculation and the 1825 American crash. 
- 7 May 1818: London merchant Abraham Dixon writes to the Prince Regent requesting a royal warrant for Leeds manufacturer William Hirst’s superfine cloth
- 11 January 1825: American comment on William Hirst of Leeds’s revolutionary and controversial labour-saving improvements to spinning and stubbing machines, patented today
- 12 June 1832: William Hirst, “father of the Yorkshire woollen trade,” composes a press advert pleading for rescue from ruin
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