Salt

Salt, SIR TITUS, a public-spirited English manufacturer, was born at Morley, near Leeds, 20th September 1803. He began business as a wool-stapler at Bradford, and being successful started wool-spinning in 1834, and was the first to introduce the manufacture of alpaca fabrics into England. His utilisation of the alpaca, which first came under his notice during a business visit to Liverpool, is one of the romances of British commerce. As business increased he concentrated his factories in a pleasant valley, 3 miles from Bradford, on the Aire (1853), and round these factories, which cover 12 acres, rose the model village of Saltaire (q.v.). Titus Salt was mayor of Bradford in 1848, was returned as member of parliament in 1859, and was created a baronet in 1869. He died 29th December 1876. There is a statue of him in Bradford. See Life by Balgarnie (1877).