CARTWRIGHT, EDMUND, D.D., the inventor of the weaving machinery termed The Power-loom, was born April 24, 1743, at Marnham in Nottingham. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was successively clergyman of Brampton in Derbyshire, and of Goadly Marwood in Leicestershire. He does not appear to have turned his attention to machinery until the year 1784, when he first conceived the idea of weaving by machinery; yet in April 1785 he produced his first power-loom, which he subsequently brought to perfection by numerous improvements. He took out no less than ten different patents connected with this process, one of which, dated in April 1790, was for the combing of wool. The first mill on his plan, which contained 500 of his looms, was destroyed by a wilful fire; and for 19 years, after a large expenditure, this great mechanical genius scarcely derived any advantage from his important inventions; but in 1809 parliament voted him a grant of £10,000, as expressed in the act, "for the good service Dr Cartwright had rendered the public by his inventions for weaving." Though this sum was less than the money he had actually expended in perfecting his inventions, it rendered his latter days unembarrassed and comfortable. He died October 30, 1823, at the age of 80. It may be mentioned that he was the younger brother of Major John Cartwright, the well-known English Reformer of the reign of George III., to whose memory a bronze statue is erected in Burton Crescent, London.