Francis Sumner (millowner)

Francis Sumner was the only Roman Catholic millowner in Glossop. Catholicism was strong in Glossop because of he influence of the Howards and their estate staff, the Ellisons, Francis Hawke and John le Jardins. Sumner was a Whig and thus Liberal.cite book|last=Birch|first=A.H.|title=Small Town Politics, A Study of Political Life in Glossop|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1959|pages=8-38|chapter=2|accessdate=June 2008] Sumner moved to Glossop in October 1822. He built and expanded the Wren's Nest Mill so that it employed 1400, operated 123,000 spindles and 2541 looms. Wren's Nest, with the Howardtown Mills and Waterside Mills, Hadfield dominated the Derbyshire cotton industry.cite book|last=Quayle|first=Tom|title=The Cotton Industry in Longdendale and Glossopdale|publisher=Tempus|location=Stroud,Gloucestershire|date=2006|pages=126|language=English]

;See also List_of_mills_in_Longdendale_and_Glossopdale

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