Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876), born in Morley, near Leeds, was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. His father Daniel Salt was a fairly successful interesting but controlling businessman and was able to send Titus to Heath Grammar School, near Wakefield. is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1876 Pick up Sticks(MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Morleys Coat of Arms Morley is a town in the county of Yorkshire (since 1974, West Yorkshire), England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds and is situated five miles south-west of Leeds City Centre. ... For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation) and Leeds City (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Bradford (disambiguation). ... Coat of Arms of South Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, that has a population of 2. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ...

Titus Salt's statue in Roberts Park

After working for two years as a wool-stapler in Wakefield he became his father's partner in the business of Daniel Salt and Son. The company worked particularly with Russian Donskoi wool, which was widely used in the woollens trade, but not in worsted cloth. Titus went round all the spinners in Bradford trying to interested them in using the wool for worsted manufacture, with no success, so he set up as a spinner and manufacturer himself.^[1]. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1070x2171, 284 KB) Statue of Titus Salt in Roberts Park, Saltaire. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1070x2171, 284 KB) Statue of Titus Salt in Roberts Park, Saltaire. ... A wool-stapler is a dealer in wool. ... This article is about wool, the fiber. ... Worsted is the name of a dick the cloth made from this yarn, as well as a yarn weight category. ... Worsted is the name of a dick the cloth made from this yarn, as well as a yarn weight category. ...

In 1836, Titus came upon some forgotten bales of Alpaca wool in a warehouse in Liverpool, and after taking some samples away to experiment, came back and bought the whole consignment. Though he was not the first in England to try working with the fibre, he was the creator of the lustrous and subsequently very fashionable cloth called 'alpaca'^[1]. (The discovery was described by Charles Dickens in slightly fictionalised form in Household Words). This article is about a breed of domesticated ungulates. ... For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... Dickens redirects here. ... Front cover of volume XI Household Words was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens which took its name from the line from Shakespeare Familiar in his mouth as household words—Henry V. It was published between 1850 and 1859. ...

In 1833 he had taken over the running of his father's business and within twenty years had expanded it to be the largest employer in Bradford. In 1848 Titus Salt became mayor of Bradford. The smoke and pollution emanating from local mills (factories) in Bradford was acknowledged to come from the many factory chimneys and Salt tried unsuccessfully to get this pollution cleaned up using a device called the Rodda Smoke Burner.^{[citation needed]} Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Around 1850, he decided to build a large mill to consolidate his textile manufacture in one place, but he "did not like to be a party to increasing that already over-crowded borough"^[2], and he bought some land three miles from Bradford, next to the River Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Midland Railway: there his mill was begun in 1851. He opened it with a grand banquet on his 50th birthday, 20 September, 1853, and then set about building the houses, bathhouses, institute, hospital, almshouses and churches, that make up Saltaire. He built the Congregational Church (now Saltaire United Reform Church) at his own expense in 1858-9, and donated the land on which the Wesleyan Chapel was built by public subscription in 1866-8. Aire can refer to: Aire - the River Aire in Yorkshire, England. ... The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in the north of England running from Liverpool, Merseyside to Leeds, West Yorkshire. ... This article is about the historical British railway company. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Saltaire is the name of a Victorian era model village in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ... Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ... The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist denomination, and the second-largest Protestant one, in the United States. ...

Salt was a private man, and left no written statement of his purposes in creating Saltaire; but he told Lord Harewood at the opening that he had built the place "to do good and to give his sons employment".^[3] It is commonly believed that he was tee-total (as evidenced by a bar named Don't tell Titus, opened in Saltaire in 2007), but there is no evidence for this. He did, however forbid 'beershops' in Saltaire^[1]. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Salt was Chief Constable of Bradford before its incorporation as a borough in 1837, then senior Alderman from that date. He sat as Mayor 1848-9, and was later Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1857 he was President of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Bradford from 1859 until he retired through ill health on 1 February 1861^[1]. In 1869 he was created a Baronet, of Saltaire in the County of York. Look up Borough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... The West Riding as an administrative county prior to its abolition in 1974. ... Chambers of commerce are business advocacy groups which are usually not associated with government. ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... Type Bicameral Houses House of Commons House of Lords Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP Lord Speaker Hélène Hayman, PC Members 1377 (646 Commons, 731 Peers) Political groups Labour Party Conservative Party Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Plaid Cymru Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Féin... Bradford was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the brush-footed butterfly species, see Euthalia nais. ...

He died at Hipperholme, West Yorkshire in 1876 and was buried at Saltaire Congregational Church. His funeral was reputedly attended by 100,000 people. Hipperholme Grammar School Hipperholme is a village in the Calderdale area of Yorkshire, located between the towns of Halifax and Brighouse. ... Coat of Arms of South Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, that has a population of 2. ... Saltaire is the name of a Victorian era model village in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Holroyd, Abraham (200 (1873)). Saltaire and its Founder. ISBN 0-9538601-0-8. 
2. ^ From Titus Salt's speech and the opening banquet, 20 September 1853. (from Holroyd)
3. ^ Introduction (2000) by Derek Bryant to Piroisms reprint of Holroyd, op. cit.

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Further reading

• Greenhalf, Jim (1998). Salt & Silver. Bradford Libraries. ISBN 0-907734-52-9. 
• Kidd, Charles, Williwamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• James, David (2004), "Salt, Sir Titus, first baronet (1803-1876)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Titus Salt. Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page