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MR. JOHN CBOMPTON, president in 1937–38 of the Textile Institute, Manchester, died on May 31 at the age of seventy–eight. We are indebted to the Textile Journal for the following particulars. He was of the family that numbered one of the fathers of the cotton industry, namely, Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the cotton spinning mule. His father was a hand–loom weaver of silk fabrics, who eventually found his way into a cotton mill in Walkden, where his son joined him at a later date. It was from his father that John Crompton had his first lessons in cloth structure— subject in which he perfected his knowledge at a later date by means of a model loom he devised. His studentship meant long and arduous study, but his tenacity of purpose and keen application overcame the many difficulties. He was one of the pioneers of technical education, first as a student and then as a teacher; eventually he became an examiner in his subject for the City and Guilds of London Institute.
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Mr. John Crompton, O.B.E. Nature 148, 45 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148045b0
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