Ralph Slater

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]

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Register: Burials 1813 - 1887, Page 167, Entry 1332 Source: LDS Film 1470949
^ Rennison, pp. 216–17
^ Fields, pp. 150–51
^ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 13 June 2011
^ ^5.0 ^5.1 Lancashire's Architectural Heritage: An Anthology of Fine Buildings, John Champness (1989), p. 83 ISBN 9780902228719
^ "Meet the miller" – BBC Lancashire, 14 June 2007
^ The industrial archaeology of north-west England, Owen Ashmore (1982), p. 216 ISBN 9780719008207

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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