Edmund Potter
British industrialist and politician (1802–1883) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edmund Potter (1802–1883) was a Manchester industrialist and MP and grandfather to Beatrix Potter.
He was a unitarian and, from 1861 to 1874, Liberal MP for Carlisle.[1][2] Potter moved his business to Glossop in 1825, he rebuilt Joseph Lyne's Boggart Mill, and converted it to a printworks. He moved his family to Dinting Lodge in 1842. Originally calico printing was done by hand, but Potter introduced precision machine printing. By 1883, the mill employed 350, and had printed 1 million pieces on 42 machines. It was the world's largest calico printing factory.[3]