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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet abstract "Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet (7 May 1807 – 13 August 1897) was an inventor and manufacturer, who is known both for his work in developing the Square Motion wool-combing machine with wool-combing and as a Radical Liberal Member of Parliament .He was born in the village of Hurlet near Glasgow. Largely self-educated, his formal education was often disrupted. He was apprenticed for a short period as a draw boy for two hand weavers but attended grammar schools run by the 'Old Radical' John Fraser. He became a pupil teacher and then sought to become a Wesleyan Minister before teaching at schools in Slaithwaite and Leeds. In 1829 obtained a post at the Castle Academy in Reading, Berkshire.It was here that it was he developed a version of the Lucifer match, but his invention was superseded by John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees in 1827, who did not patent the invention.The following year he returned to Scotland to set up a night school in Glasgow, but after a brief period of teaching he moved in 1830 to become a bookkeeper at a worsted factory in Cullingworth near Bingley. Transferring to the technical side and becoming a manager, he spent his time at Townsends seeking to improve the woool combing process. He left Townsends in 1846 to set up a factory making Paisley Shawl middles at Pit Lane in Bradford. When the business failed two years later he formed a partnership with Samuel Lister (later Lord Masham). They worked together to develop the square motion wool-combing machine, which was patented by Lister in 1848, although Holden had drafted the patent. The origins of the machine became the subject of a lifelong dispute between the two men.In 1848, trading as Lister & Holden, Isaac Holden set up a factory at St Dennis near Paris where over the next few years he perfected the square motion machine. He then set up factories in France at Croix near Lille and at Reims run by his nephews Isaac Holden Crothers and Jonathon Holden. In 1857 he bought out Lister and the firm was renamed Isaac Holden et Fils. In 1860 he and his sons, Angus and Edward, set up an experimental factory at Penny Oaks in Bradford and then in 1864 they opened the massive Alston Works on Bradford. By the 1870s Holden's factories in England and France had become the largest wool combers in the world. He celebrated his success by building a large Italianate mansion at Oakworth near Keighley in Yorkshire.As a leading Wesleyan Holden's philanthropy was largely concentrated on building Wesleyan chapels. He pledged £5000 to build 50 chapels in London. In 1865 he was elected to serve as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Knaresborough from 1865 to 1868, and later for the Northern West Riding of Yorkshire from 1882 to 1885 and for Keighley from 1885 to 1895. In his political life he campaigned for electoral reform, church disestablishment and Irish Home Rule.In 1893, at the age of 86, he was created a Baronet, of Oakworth House in the County of York.Holden died in August 1897, aged 90, and was buried in Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford.He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Angus Holden.His daughter Margaret had married Alfred Illingworth who succeeded him as MP for Knaresborough.In 1908 his son was raised to the peerage as Baron Holden.The former grounds of Oakworth House were given as a public park to the people of Oakworth by the family of Sir Isaac Holden in 1927.This is called Holden Park.".
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet deathDate "1897-08-13".
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet restingPlace Bradford.
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Holden".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Isaac Holden".
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet".
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet birthDate "1807-05-07".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet birthPlace Hurlet.
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet caption "Holden in 1868, painted by Samuel Sidley".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet dateOfBirth "1807-05-07".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet dateOfDeath "1897-08-13".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet deathDate "1897-08-13".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet deathPlace Oakworth.
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet name "Holden, Isaac".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet name "Issac Holden".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet nationality "British".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet occupation "inventor and politician".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet placeOfBirth Hurlet.
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet placeOfDeath Oakworth.
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet restingPlace "Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford".
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- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet title "Member of Parliament for Keighley".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet title "Member of Parliament for Knaresborough".
- Sir_Isaac_Holden,_1st_Baronet title "Member of Parliament for Northern West Riding of Yorkshire".
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