Sir Titus Salt, Baronet, His Life and Its Lessons


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Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, where he provided cleaner air, better housing, schooling, banking, churches, recreation, shorter hours and higher wages for over 4000 employees. Salt's tireless work and innovation with alpaca thread lead him to fame and fortune. He was awarded a baronetsy by the British Crown in 1869. It is estimated that over 100,000 people attended his funeral. Salt left no memoirs, but his personal friend, Rev. Balgarnie, pieced together this fascinating biography from interviews, records, news articles and speeches by or about him. One testimonial stated "Titus was perhaps the greatest captain of industry in England not only because he gathered thousands under him but also because, according to the light that was in him, he tried to care for all those thousands." Salt disbursed over £500,000 in philanthropy by the time of his death (about £65 million in 2021, or $91.5 million).

THE GREAT YORKSHIRE LLAMA, by Charles Dickens, the story referred to in Chapter 6 which elaborates how Sir Titus discovered a huge stash of alpaca wool in Liverpool, and developed it into a highly popular fabric, can be found in LV's Short Non-Fiction Collection #82 (Summary by Michele Fry) (9 hr 1 min)

Chapitres

Chapter 1, with Preface and Introduction 9:27 Lu par Michele Fry
Chapter 2 23:23 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter 3 26:31 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter 4 21:11 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter 5 27:22 Lu par Rita Boutros
Chapter 6 27:40 Lu par Michele Fry
Chapter 7 21:15 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 8 18:26 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 9 27:47 Lu par Michele Fry
Chapter 10 25:38 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 11 29:01 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 12 46:45 Lu par William Allan Jones
Chapter 13 30:34 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 14 27:27 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 15 32:29 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 16 29:50 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 17 29:58 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 18 31:24 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 19 23:40 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Chapter 20 32:11 Lu par KevinS