![]() ![]() John Heathcoat Amory was the builder of Knightshayes. ![]() The business passed to John's grandson when he died and the Heathcoat Amory name was born.Tiverton has since produced the lace for the wedding veils for royal weddings. His Tiverton Lace Manufactory was a huge success.He turned down £100,000 compensation to start again in the Midlands and focused on building his business in Tiverton in Devon, with many of his former employees following him there on foot. But some people weren't keen on progress and in June 1816 a group of Luddite wreckers broke into his Loughborough factory and smashed up 55 lace frames.He was an inventive and hard-working man who created a bobbin net machine in 1805. John Heathcoat was born in Derby in 1783. The story of how the Heathcoat Amory family ended up in Devon is an extremely timely tale. ![]()
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