Robert Hyde Greg (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Hyde Greg (24 September 1795 - 21 February 1875), was an English industrialist, economist and antiquary. Born in Manchester, the son of Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and the junior Samuel Greg. His mother, Hannah, was a descendant of Philip Henry. He attended the University of Edinburgh and, after the obligatory Grand Tour of the antiquities of Continental Europe, joined his father's textile manufacturing enterprise.