John Kendrew

John Kendrew

male
inventor, Houghton le Spring, flax mill, ThomasPorthouse, flax, yarn
John Kendrew was a Darlington optician who invented the process of the mechanical spinning of flaxen yarn in a flax mill. He had a mill for...
John Marshall

John Marshall

male, deceased (1845)
Aire and Calder Navigation, ThomasPorthouse, patent, Darlington, spindle, freehold
John Marshall was a British businessman and politician. John joined the family business when he was seventeen. Five years later his father Jeremiah...