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William III's policy was to discourage the Irish woollen trade, but to build up linen manufacture there. [1] Crommelin was the most prominent Huguenot attracted by Southwell. [2] He arrived at Lisburn in the autumn of 1698, and made recommendations for improving the linen industry in a memorial of 16 April 1699; which were implemented quickly.
The Living Linen Project was set up in 1995 as an oral archive of the knowledge of the Irish linen industry still available within a nucleus of people who were formerly working in the industry in Ulster. [1] For over three hundred years linen manufacture has been an important industry, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.
William Robert Young PC (Ire) DL (c.1856 – 12 September 1933) was an Irish linen merchant, politician and philanthropist. Young was born at Galgorm Castle , Ballymena , County Antrim . He was educated at Harrow School and then joined the family firm of J. & R. Young of Belfast .
Sir Ivan was the son of Major William Basil Ewart (the son of Oxford educated barrister F. W. Ewart) and Rebe Annette Grindle. Born into an Irish family of linen industrialists, their firm employed over 2,500 people, [1] making it one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of Irish linen in the western world. [2]
Part II involved Mitchell, Austin and Keyser; Part III Chapman, Otway, and Muggeridge on Irish linen; [30] Part V Miles, Muggeridge and Symons. [31] Hickson made a separate report in 1840; in it he advocated abolition of the Corn Laws, and a system of national education. [4] [8] [29]
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Sir William Ewart, 1st Baronet (22 November 1817 – 1 August 1889) [1] was an Irish linen manufacturer and Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1889. Ewart was the son of William Ewart of Sydenham Park County Down. He was educated at the Belfast Academy.