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• Roberts, James, Sir

  From humble beginnings, James Roberts achieved great success in the textlie industry. He became owner of Salts Mill in the late nineteenth century and oversaw major developments of the business.
• Roberts, Lily May

  Daughter of Sir James Roberts
• Royal Cafe

  A privately run cafe based in the original Salts Mill Dining Hall on Victoria Road in Saltaire.
• Salt Grammar School

  The successor school to the Salt High Schools following the education reforms of 1944. It subsequently became the comprehensive Sir Titus Salt school and is now located just outside Saltaire on the north side of Roberts Park.
• Salt High School

  The Salt High School opened in 1876. Initially it occupied temporary accommodation, mainly in the Saltaire Club and Institute. In 1878 it moved into the building on Victoria Road that had originally been built to house the Factory School for Salts Mill. The High School was open to both boys and girls although they were educated separately. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original buildingis part of Shipley College, a further education institution.
• Salt, Caroline, Lady

  Born Caroline Whitlam. Wife of Sir Titus Salt who she married in 1830.
• Salt, Catherine

  Catherine was born in 1846 into one family of textile magnates, the Crossleys of Halifax, and married into another when Titus Salt Junior became her husband in 1866. In some ways Catherine was quite conventional, raising four children and running her privileged Victorian household, including hosting the Prince of Wales and later his sister Princess Beatrice at her home. But Catherine clearly had deep and wide interests in social and educational issues, particularly the education of girls. She helped found Bradford Girls Grammar School and served for many years on its board, and also the board of the Salt Schools.
• Salt, Daniel

  Daniel was the father of Sir Titus Salt. He initally worked as a drysalter and as a sheep farmer. He married Grace Smithies of Morley, near Leeds on 5 July 1802. Between 1813 and 1819 the family lived at The Manor House in Morley. From the 1920s up to 1833 Daniel ran a textile business of 'Daniel Salt and Son' with Titus. They made a lot of use of Donskoi wool from Russi in the production of worsted cloth.
• Salt, Denys

  Denys Salt was the Great-grandson of Sir Titus Salt, Grandson of Titus Salt Junior and Son of Harold Salt. For more than 50 years, Denys was the member of the Salt family who did most to sustain the family’s links with Saltaire. His encouragement to generations of historians, his contributions to local archives, libraries and museums, and his support of activities in Saltaire were of invaluable benefit to the local community. Denys donated an important set of documents, photographs and other objects to the Saltaire Collection, most concerning the Salt family.
• Salt, Edward

  Third son of Titus Salt
• Salt, Fanny

  Second daughter of Sir Titus and Caroline Salt. She died of tuberculosis just days before her twentieth birthday.
• Salt, Grace

  Grace was the mother of Sir Titus Salt. She was born Grace Smithies and lived in Morley near Leeds. She married Daniel Salt on 5 July 1802.
• Salt, Herbert Crossley

  First son of Titus Salt
• Salt, Isabel

  Isabel Salt, granddaughter of Sir Titus Salt, was the only daughter of four children of Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine. By the age of twelve her family had entertained two visits of Royalty and mourned the death of her father. By the late 1890s Isabel had started to work for the welfare of the poor and the independence and equality of women. She became continually active in the Women’s Liberal Association and became a prominent speaker on getting women’s right to vote, although she clearly stated that she was a suffragist not a suggragette. Isabel was also a committed and campaigning pacifist, a subject that became highly contentious during the First World War. Many of Isabel's campaigning speeches and letters to the newspapers are recorded in her own newscutting books, part of the Saltaire Collection alongside travel diaries, letters, photographs, clothing and an intriguing tin of acorns.
• Salt, Lawrence

  Son of Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine.
• Salt, Mary

  Third daughter of Sir Titus and Caroline Salt. She died in infancy of 'congestion of the brain'.
• Salt, Nicholas
• Salt, P. Charles
• Salt, Titus, Junior

  Fifth son of Sir Titus and Caroline Salt. He became one of the leading directors of the family firm Sir Titus Salt, Bart. and Sons Ltd.
• Salt, Titus, Sir

  Major textile industrialist, businessman and philanthropist in nineteenth century Bradford. Commisioned the building of Salts Mill and Saltaire.