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Samuel Touchet

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in Birmingham in association with Paul and with assistance from Wyatt. Little is known of the fate of this mill, but it was sufficiently successful for Touchet later to secure the lease of
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in 1761 but his business foundered that year's financial crisis and was taken over by his creditors in 1763, with Touchet remaining an MP until 1768.
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As Touchet became very wealthy over the course of the 1750s his business interests diversified into
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was successful to the extent that manufacturers in Manchester began to suspect him of seeking a
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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trades. He partnered up on two ships out of Liverpool, the
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The cotton trade and industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780
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cotton
Manchester
London
Levant
West Indies
monopoly
Birmingham
Lewis Paul
John Wyatt
Touchet's Mill
Marvel's Mill
Northampton
Paul-Wyatt cotton mills
Edward Cave
shipping
insurance broking
sugar
slave
MP
Shaftesbury




Kidd 2008
Wadsworth & Mann 1931
Wadsworth & Mann 1931
Wadsworth & Mann 1931
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