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Feb 07, 1801 Parr, St Helens, United Kingdom Died on 11 Dec 1888 (aged 87)
British businessman
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About John Rylands
- John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester's first multi-millionaire. After having learned to weave, Rylands became a small-scale manufacturer of hand-looms, while also working in the draper's shop which his father had opened in St Helens.
- He displayed a "precocious shrewdness" for retailing, and in partnership with his two elder brothers expanded into the wholesale trade.
- So successful were they that, in 1819, Rylands' father merged his retail business with theirs, creating the firm of Rylands & Sons.
- At its peak, the company employed a workforce of 15,000 in 17 mills and factories, producing 35 tons of cloth a day.
