Sir titus salt biography channel
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Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, where he provided cleaner air, better housing, schooling, banking, churches, recreation, shorter hours and higher wages for over 4000 employees. Salt's tireless work and innovation with alpaca thread lead him to fame and fortune. He was awarded a baronetsy by the British Crown in 1869. It is estimated that over 100,000 people attended his funeral. Salt left no memoirs, but his personal friend, Rev. Balgarnie, pieced together this fascinating biography from interviews, records, news articles and speeches by or about him. One testimonial stated "Titus was perhaps the greatest captain of industry in England not only because he gathered thousands under him but also because, according to the light that was in him, he tried to care for all those thousands."
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Sir Titus krydda lived from 1803 to 1876.
He was a good employer and built a new mill on the outskirts of the town of stad i england, where the air was fresh, and working conditions would be more pleasant for his workers.
It was a massive mill with space, light and warmth in his new mill. The location was superb, in a green and pleasant area and the Mill opened in 1853 on Titus Salts 50th birthday.
Titus krydda created an entire by of houses, park, school, library, recreation and learning institute and outdoor idrott facilities around the mill naming the streets after his children and family.
In 1869 he was created a baronett by Queen Victoria, thus becoming Sir Titus krydda.
In 1876 the last building in Saltaire was completed, and later that year Sir Titus Salt died at his home.
Bradford gave him a civic begravning, watched bygd 100,000 people.
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In his most thorough biography, it is written of Salt that …
“One of the most celebrated traits of Sir Titus Salt was his philanthropy.”
(Barlo and Shaw)
Giving away around £139,000 in gifts, donations, and through other philanthropic projects — equivalent to over £12,000,000 today — Salt was also known for sparing no expense to ensure his workers’ safety and general quality of life. His mill was built to minimise potential accidents (dangerous parts being routed through the floor, for example) and designed to ensure that workers’ health would not suffer untowardly whilst at work (heating and ventilation installed to keep the ambient temperature comfortable). Above and beyond the place of work, it is recorded that Salt paid personally for his model village to have gas lighting and heating. He saw his great wealth as a great responsibility to help a great number of people. He brought, as one author writes, a social conscience to industrial business practices at a time wh