December loih, igoi.] PROCEEDINGS. 



Richard Roberts. 



The next important invention was tliat of Samuel Crompton, 

 of Bolton. It was still found impossible to meet the demand 

 created by the new loom, and, in the year 1775, Crompton 

 invented the spinning mule. At this time, most of our fine 

 yarns were imported from India, but by the year 1805 we began 

 to sc-nd fine yarns back to that country. Crompton was in ireat 

 fear at one time because of the enmity of workmen, and in 

 181 1 the Government made him a grant of ;^5,ooo. He died 

 in 1827, and in 1862 a fine bronze monument was erected in 

 Bolton to commemorate him. 



At the commencement of the nineteenth century, many men 

 were applying themselves to the driving of Kay's loom and 

 Crompton's mule by steam power, but it was reserved to two 

 Stockport manufacturers, Radcliffe and Horrocks, to invent 



