Thomas Warren

Thomas Warren

Thomas Warren (fl. 1727 – 1767) was an English bookseller, printer, publisher and businessman.

Warren was an influential figure in Birmingham at a time when it was a hotbed of creative activity, opening a bookshop in High Street, Birmingham around 1727.cite book|last=Fleeman|first=J.D.|title=A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson: 1731-59 Vol 1|url=http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-812270-5.pdf|date=2000-03-02|year=|month=|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|language=|isbn=0198122691|pages=3|quote= ] From here he founded and published the "Birmingham Journal" - the town's first known newspaper; [cite web|url=http://www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fchild%2Easp&originator=&page=&records=&direction=&pointer=&text=&resource=4215&exhibition=1310&offset=8|title=Johnson in Birmingham|accessdate=2008-01-05|work=Revolutionary Players of Industry and Innovation|publisher=Museums, Libraries and Archives - West Midlands|quote= ] he edited and published Samuel Johnson's first book - a translation of Jerónimo Lobo’s "Voyage to Abyssinia"; [cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=60637&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=10272|title=Johnson Collection|accessdate=2008-01-05|date=2007-12-19|publisher=Birmingham City Council ] and he financed the cotton mill established by John Wyatt and Lewis Paul in 1741. [cite book|author=James Thomson|editor=Leandro Prados de la Escosura|title=Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815|url=|accessdate=2007-12-29|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521793041|pages=135|chapter=Invention in the Industrial Revolution: the case of cotton|chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=e_eXhDW5paYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA135,M1|quote= ] This was the world's first mechanised cotton-spinning factory, and was to pave the way for Richard Arkwright's later transformation of the cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution. [cite book|last=Wadsworth|first=Alfred P.|coauthors=De Lacy Mann, Julia|title=The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780|date=1931|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=Manchester|pages=431-447|chapter=The First Cotton Spinning Factories ]

The Paul-Wyatt cotton mill was not a financial success, however, and Warren was declared bankrupt in 1743.

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