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John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom and Manchester’s first multi-millionaire.After having learned to weave Rylands became a small-scale manufacturer of hand-looms while also working in the draper’s shop which his father had opened in St. Helens.
