Sir Titus Salt

Manufacturer and benefactor, born in Morley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He was a wool stapler at Bradford, started wool-spinning in 1834, and was the first to manufacture alpaca fabrics in England. Around his factories near Bradford he built the model village of Saltaire (1853), now a world heritage site. He was Mayor of Bradford (1848), its Liberal MP (1859–61), and he was created a baronet in 1869.

Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 - 29 December 1876), born in Morley, was a manufacturer and benefactor in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

He attended Batley Grammar School before starting work as a Woolstapler in Wakefield and after two years joined his father's family business in Bradford in 1824. In 1833 he took over the running of the business and within twenty years had expanded it to be the largest employer in Bradford. In 1848 Titus Salt became mayor of Bradford. The smoke and pollution emanating from local mills in Bradford was acknowledged to come from the many factory chimneys and Salt tried unsuccessfully to get this pollution cleaned up using a device called the Rodda Smoke Burner. In 1853, he established a model village for factory workers at Saltaire, three miles from Bradford, in the Aire valley. Sir Titus was also said to be a non-alcoholic (i.e., Tee-Total), hence the bar named "Don't tell Titus" that exists in Saltaire today,however it seems that his aversion was not to alcohol as such but rather to pubs which, being places where men met, could be places of political subversion, which he feared.He put workers of different 'ranks' in the same street so one could keep an eye on the other.