Ralph Slater
Marsh Mill, built by Slater in 1794
Born1754
Barton, Preston
Died1830 (aged 75–76)
NationalityBritish
Known forLancashire windmills

Ralph Slater (1754–1830)[1] was an English millwright, active in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th, ostensibly known for his windmills on the Fylde in Lancashire, England.[2][3] One of them, Marsh Mill, is a Grade II* listed building.[4] He was from Pilling.[5]

Personal life

Slater was born in 1754 in Barton, Preston. He married Margery Speakman (1742–1814)[1] on 25 April 1775.[5] They had four children together.[1]

He died in 1830, aged 75 or 76.[1]

Selected works

References

Footnotes
  1. 1 2 3 4 Register: Burials 1813 - 1887, Page 167, Entry 1332 Source: LDS Film 1470949
  2. ↑ Rennison, pp. 216–17
  3. ↑ Fields, pp. 150–51
  4. ↑ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 13 June 2011
  5. 1 2 Lancashire's Architectural Heritage: An Anthology of Fine Buildings, John Champness (1989), p. 83 ISBN 9780902228719
  6. ↑ "Meet the miller" – BBC Lancashire, 14 June 2007
  7. ↑ The industrial archaeology of north-west England, Owen Ashmore (1982), p. 216 ISBN 9780719008207
Sources
  • Fields, Kenneth (1998), Lancashire Magic & Mystery: Secrets of the Red Rose County, Sigma, ISBN 1-85058-606-3
  • Rennison, Robert William (1996), Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England, Thomas Telford, ISBN 0-7277-2518-1


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