Rylands, John

has biography | a une biographie: English entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a leading manufacturer of cotton in nineteenth-century Britain. John Ryland's firm Rylands and Sons imported much of the cotton for their Lancashire mills from the American South, which would have been picked by enslaved people until 1865.

In 1875 Rylands married Enriqueta Augustina, who came from a wealthy family of slave-owners in Havana, Cuba.
was born | est né: 7 February 1801
died in | est mort par: 11 December 1888
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Art UK; Natalie Zacek, 'Rylands Reflects: The Founder and the Fortune' (2020)

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Statue of John Rylands

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Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina