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Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was a successful businessman who helped improve conditions for his workers, building a model factory and village in Saltaire (near Bradford).
Mar 9, 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Titus Salt, a leading Bradford mill owner and philanthropist of the nineteenth century. He built Salts Mill and the model village of Saltaire, and was a pioneer in Alpaca wool production and a public servant.
Titus Salt (1803-1876), the founder of Salts Mill and Saltaire. Born in Morley near Leeds and educated in Wakefield, Titus Salt first served an apprenticeship with a wool stapler in Wakefield. He moved to Bradford in 1820/1821 with his father, mother and siblings when he was 17 or 18 years of age.
Saltaire was founded by Sir Titus Salt, a woollen textiles manufacturer who moved his entire business from Bradford - partly to provide better living and working conditions for his workers, and partly to site his large mill by a canal and a railway.
Learn about the life and legacy of Titus Salt, a Victorian textile magnate and philanthropist who created the model village of Saltaire. Find out how he combined profit, paternalism and Nonconformist values in his industrial and social endeavours.
…in 1853 by the industrialist Sir Titus Salt, a manufacturer of alpaca wool fabrics, as a model village for his employees. The community, named for its founder (Salt) and the nearby river (Aire), was built beside large woolen mills on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
