The eldest son of a successful German textile industrialist, Engels became involved in radical journalism in his youth.

In 1814 the textile industrialist Johann Heinrich Meyer founded an orphanage and poorhouse.

He lived the first 14 years of his life in Naples, where his father was a textile industrialist and a specialist in Pompeian Art.

The textile industrialist Hans Schlumpf was his brother.

George Albert Draper (November 4, 1855 - February 7, 1923) was an American textile industrialist.

Samuel Courtauld, the textile industrialist, and his supporters warned that industrialists must come to terms with the new mood in favour of government intervention.

As a textile industrialist, he served as treasurer and vice president of the Textile Distributors Institute.

In the 1700s textile industrialists supported by traders and landowners campaigned for a turnpike to make connections with growing industrial towns.

He was born on November 8, 1881 in Paris to a textile industrialist.

In 1951, Marcel Boussac, a powerful textile industrialist in the capital, owned a 74.3% controlling stake in the paper.