Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright MAFSA (24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823) was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom. Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of Major John Cartwright, a political reformer and radical, and George Cartwright, explorer of Labrador. He was the only son of the Reverend Edmund Cartwright DDFRS of Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire.