Famous Cartwrights

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Cartwright, Alexander Joy  b. 17 Apr 1820, New York City--d. 12 Jul 1892, Honolulu

"chief codifier of the baseball rules from which the present rules were developed...  ...Generally credited with fixing the distance between bases at 90 feet."

Cartwright, Edmund  b. 24 Apr 1743, Marnham, Nottinghamshire--d. 30 Oct 1823, Hastings, Sussex.

"invented the first wool-combing machine and the predecessor of the modern power loom."

Cartwright, Maj. John  b. 17 Sep 1740, Marnham, Nottinghamshire--d. 23 Sep 1824, London.

"advocate of radical reform of the British Parliament and of various constitutional changes that   were later incorporated into the People's Charter (1838), the basic document of the working class movement known as Chartism."  (Older brother to Edmund, above.)
 

Cartwright, Peter  1785-1872

"best known of the early 19th-century Methodist circuit riders travelling by horse over the Cumberland River valley in Kentucky.  Famous for outspoken sermons defending Methodism against all other creeds, he moved to Sangamon Co in Illinois (1824) in protest of the south's slavery policy.  He served several terms in the Illinois General Assembly.  His Autobiography (1856) is the leading source for material on the western circuit rider's life."

Cartwright, Sir Richard John   4 Dec 1835, Kingston, Upper Canada, now Ontario--d. 24 Sep 1912, Kingston

"statesman and finance minister of Canada's Liberal Party; he supported free trade between the United States and Canada, in opposition to the trade protectionism of the Conservatives."
 

Cartwright, Thomas  (1535-1603)

"English Puritan leader under Elizabeth I."
 

Cartwright, William  b. Sep 1611, Northway, Gloucestershire--d. 29 Nov 1643, Oxford.

"writer greatly admired in his day as a poet, scholar, wit, and author of plays in the comic tradition of Ben Jonson."
 
 

Exerpts in quotes "" above, Copyright 1977, Encyclopedia Britannica

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