Miles Ashworth
Rochdale Pioneer co-operator
About Miles Ashworth
Lived 1792 – 1868 (aged 75–76). Miles Ashworth was a British weaver, royal Marines and weaving.
Miles Ashworth (bapt. 29 January 1792 – 13 April 1868) was an English co-operator, weaver, chartist, and marine. In 1844 he was a founding member of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers and served as the society's first president. He was father to fellow Rochdale Pioneer Samuel Ashworth.
Biography Ashworth was born to William and Ann Ashworth and was baptised on the 29 January 1792 in Rochdale, Lancashire. He served as a marine during the Napoleonic Wars on HMS Bellerophon where he guarded Napoleon following his capture by the British in 1815.
Ashworth died in Rochdale on the 13 April 1868 at the age of 76.
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Rochdale Pioneer co-operator (1792–1868)
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Miles Ashworth was born in 1792 in Rochdale.
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Miles Ashworth died on 13 April 1868 in Rochdale.
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Miles Ashworth was a weaver, royal Marines and weaving.
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Miles Ashworth was British.
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