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RYLANDS, JOHN (18o1-1888)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 950 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
RYLANDS, JOHN (18o1-1888) , English manufacturer and merchant, was born at St Helens, Lancashire, on the 7th of
February
  18o1, and was educated at the grammar school in that town. In 1819 he, his elder
brothers
  and his father, a manufacturer of
cotton
  goods, founded the firm of
Rylands
  & Sons,
cotton
  goods and linen manufacturers, at Wigan. The business rapidly increased, dye-works and bleach-works were added, and the discovery of coal under some of the firm's property added materially to its wealth. In 1825 the partners became merchant's as well as manufacturers, and subsequently acquired spinning mills at
Bolton
  and elsewhere. In 1847, his father being dead and his
brothers
  having retired, John
Rylands
  assumed entire
control
  of the business, which in 1873 was turned into a limited liability company. It has mills at Manchester,
Bolton
 , and Wigan, and is now probably the largest concern of the kind in
Great
  Britain. John Rylands was a benefactor to various charities, and was one of the
original
  financiers of the Manchester Ship Canal. He died at Stretford on the 11th of December 1888. A permanent memorial, the John Rylands Library, was erected by his widow in Manchester in 1899.


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