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Florence Nightingale's great uncle, Peter Nightingale, is linked to the Arkwright Mill in Derbyshire , which was a central part of the Industrial Revolution.

The Nightingale family made their fortune in the lead mining industry.听Peter Nightingale used funds inherited from his father鈥榮 work in the lead business to acquire land in Cromford, Derbyshire and to build a mill for cotton spinning at Lea Brook in Derbyshire.

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He later sold the Lea Brook site to John Smedley (who changed that mill from cotton to wool - a business that survives today as Smedley knitwear).

Nightingale decided to sell the Cromford property to Richard Arkwright, who started spinning cotton imported from places like America鈥檚 slave South and the Meditterrean.

The resulting cloths eventually were shipped around the world by Britain鈥檚 merchant navy and marketed by British merchants.

Arkwright's use of cotton from the places like the slave fields in the US helped power the Industrial Revolution - his was one of the first mass industrial processes and the Arkwright building itself, is now a World Heritage Site.

Devon Daley