Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, he fell in company with some Manchester gentlemen, whose conversation was destined to change the whole tenor of his life. In these congenial and tranquil callings Cartwright’s life passed away peacefully and profitably until his fortieth year. He wrote, also, the “Prince of Peace,” and sonnets to “Eminent Men.” After this he became a regular contributor to the “Monthly Review,” and a literary correspondent with many eminent persons. In 1770 he published, in his own name, a legendary poem entitled “Armida and Elvira,” which was received with much favor, and passed through several editions in a short time. At an early age he displayed some literary ability, and published, anonymously, a collection of poetical pieces. When the time arrived for taking holy orders, he was appointed to the living of Brampton, near Chesterfield, and afterward of Goadby-Marwood in Leicestershire. After leaving the school at Wakefield, he was sent to University College, Oxford, and subsequently was elected a fellow of Magdalen College. Being intended for the Church, Edmund had more than ordinary care bestowed on his education. His family was ancient and respectable, although in somewhat reduced circumstances. Although not strictly a self-made man, he owes his reputation entirely to himself, and as he obtained this at an advanced period of life, his story furnishes the instructive lesson that it is never too late to exert the highest faculties of the mind, even when they have been occupied in utterly different pursuits to those to which they are now newly called.Įdmund Cartwright was born in the year 1743, at Marnham, in the county of Nottingham, England. Among the names of those eminent inventors who have given to the useful arts and to manufactures their present importance- who have in the most direct and perceptible way benefited the civilization of the world-the name of Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power-loom, deserves to be borne in warm and grateful remembrance.
Engraving by James Thomson (1789-1850) after a painting by Robert Fulton.
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