John Kennedy (manufacturer)

John Kennedy
by Charles Allen Duval, 1844
Born4 July 1769
Knocknalling, Kirkcudbrightshire
Died30 October 1855 (1855-10-31) (aged 86)
Ardwick Hall, Manchester
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Engineer
Textile machine maker
Cotton spinner
Textile industrialist
Known forThe Jack Frame
Double Speed spinning machinery
Sedgewick Mill
Rainhill locomotive trials

John Kennedy (4 July 1769 – 30 October 1855) was a Scottish textile industrialist in Manchester.

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