# Samuel Greg (junior)

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English industrialist and philanthropist

**Samuel Greg** (6 September 1804 – 14 May 1876) was an English [industrialist](/source/Industrialist) and philanthropist.

Born in [Manchester](/source/Manchester), the son of the elder [Samuel Greg](/source/Samuel_Greg), the creator of [Quarry Bank Mill](/source/Quarry_Bank_Mill), he was brother to [William Rathbone Greg](/source/William_Rathbone_Greg) and [Robert Hyde Greg](/source/Robert_Hyde_Greg). Influenced by the religious beliefs of his mother Hannah, he attended a [Unitarian](/source/Unitarianism) school in [Nottingham](/source/Nottingham). Further study in [Bristol](/source/Bristol), under [Lant Carpenter](/source/Lant_Carpenter), and at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh) was interspersed with experience in the family firm and completed by the, then obligatory, [Grand Tour](/source/Grand_Tour).

Already more interested in the consequences of wealth rather than its creation, in 1830 and 1831 he gave lectures on scientific subjects to the workers at *Quarry Bank*. On his father's retirement in 1832, he took over management of Lowerhouse Mill in [Bollington](/source/Bollington), Cheshire and used it as a basis for further social experimentation.

He published his ideas on the model factory village in *Two Letters to [Leonard Horner](/source/Leonard_Horner) on the Capabilities of the Factory System* (1840) and went on to found a number of educational and social institutions in Bollington. However, in 1847, he introduced new machinery in his mills which was so unpopular that it precipitated a strike.

In consequence, Greg suffered from a [nervous breakdown](/source/Nervous_breakdown) and retired to his Bollington home, *The Mount*. Thereon, he restricted his philanthropy to scientific lectures for the workers of [Macclesfield](/source/Macclesfield), becoming president of the [Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge](/source/Society_for_the_Diffusion_of_Useful_Knowledge).

Greg wrote the hymn *Stay, Master, stay*,[1] based on the gospel story of the [Transfiguration of Jesus](/source/Transfiguration_of_Jesus).

Greg married Mary Priscilla Needham in 1838 and she had two sons and six daughters with him. He died in Bollington in 1876 after a long illness. His daughter Bertha married Hugh Ronalds, brother and business partner of Dr [Edmund Ronalds](/source/Edmund_Ronalds).[2] His son, [Walter](/source/Walter_Greg_(rugby_union)), was an early England rugby union international.

## Bibliography

- Rose, M.B. (1986) *The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of the Family Firm, 1750–1914* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-521-32382-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-32382-7)

- Stanley, A.P. (ed.) (1877) *A Layman's Legacy in Prose and Verse: Selections from the Papers of Samuel Greg* with a biographical memoir

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## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Samuel Greg (1804–1877). II. The Transfiguration ("Stay, Master, stay"). Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century"](http://www.bartleby.com/294/504.html).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Ronalds, B.F. (2020). "Depot Silk Mill in Derby and the Gibson and Ronalds Families". *Derby Miscellany*. **22**: 55–63.

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