Ralph Slater (1754–1830)Register: Burials 1813 - 1887, Page 167, Entry 1332 Source: LDS Film 1470949 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. One of them, Marsh Mill, is a Grade II* listed building.
Personal life Slater was born in 1754 in Barton, Preston. He married Margery Speakman (1742–1814) on 25 April 1775.Lancashire's Architectural Heritage: An Anthology of Fine Buildings, John Champness (1989), p. 83 They had four children together and lived in Pilling.
He died in 1830, aged 75 or 76.
Selected works
Marsh Mill, Thornton (1794)"Meet the miller" – BBC Lancashire, 14 June 2007 Damside Windmill, Pilling (1808)The industrial archaeology of north-west England, Owen Ashmore (1982), p. 216 Clifton Mill, Clifton
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