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Prices per ℔ in each Year of some Colonial, Foreign and English Wools, also of Alpaca and Mohair.

Material. 1874.[1] 1880. 1885. 1890. 1895. 1900. 1901.[2] 1902.[2] 1905.










d. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. d.
Port Philip—Greasy
Adelaide—Greasy
Cape—Greasy
Buenos Aires—Greasy 
British Wool
Alpaca
Mohair
14
11 ½
16
7 ½
22
33-35
 35-45
13 ½
10
12
7 ½
16 ½
13-15 ½
 27-35-21
10
6 ¾
9
4 ½
9 ½
 12½-14 ½
14-19
10 ¾
7 ½
9 ½
5 ¾
10
 22-14 ½
18-13 ½
8
5
7
4
9 ½
 14½-27
14-30
11 ½
7
9 ¾
4 ¼
7 ½
16-13
 20½-17
9 ½
6
7
4
6 110
 12½-16
19-17
13
8 ½
9 ¼
5 ¾
6
 15½-19 ½
15
13 ½
9
10 ¼
6
11 45
 15½-17 ¾
13½-16
  1. Year of the highest values of wools ever reached within recent times.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Years of the lowest values of wools ever reached within recent times.


Summary of Woollen and Worsted Factories and of Persons employed in the same in the United Kingdom.

1867. 1874. 1885. 1889. 1901. 1904.







 Factories
 Rag grinding machines
 Woollen carding sets
 Worsted combing machines 
 Spinning spindles
 Doubling spindles
 Power looms
 Children (half timers)
 Persons working full time— 
 Males
 Females
2,649
1,038
 6,455,879
519,629
118,875
33,054
94,838
134,368
2,617
1,276
 5,449,495
558,914
140,274
38,416
106,005
135,712
2,751
 5,375,102
769,492
139,902
24,636
112,935
145,684
2,517
 5,604,535
969,812
131,506
22,940
120,441
158,175
7,475
102,876
 149,558
2,382
900
6,700
2,924
 5,625,477
1,059,049
104,514


Summary of Exports of Wool, Wool Waste, Noils, Tops, Yarns and Fabrics from the United Kingdom.

1840. 1882. 1890. 1900. 1907.






 British Wool
 Foreign and Colonial 
 Waste
 Noils
 Tops
 Worsted Yarn
 Mohair, &c., Yarn
 Woollen Yarn
 Cloths
 Apparel
 5,000,000
 2,000,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13,800,000
 264,100,000
 
 
 
29,840,300
8,752,200
1,992,400
 £18,768,634
£1,380,000
19,500,000
 342,200,000
2,397,600
10,234,700
9,016,000
39,510,100
12,959,600
1,572,700
 £20,418,482
£1,700,000
24,900,000
 197,500,000
1,593,100
7,897,400
28,031,200
56,075,900
10,397,700
1,088,300
 £15,682,154
£1,700,000
34,500,000
 314,200,000
8,937,100
12,689,700
35,580,000
55,521,700
17,782,800
2,576,100
 £22,153,680
£2,550,546


WOOLLETT, WILLIAM (1735–1785), English engraver, was born at Maidstone, of a family which came originally from Holland, on the 15th of August 1735. He was apprenticed to John Tinney, an engraver in Fleet Street, London, and studied in the St Martin's Lane academy. His first important plate was from the “Niobe” of Richard Wilson, published by Boydell in 1761, which was followed in 1763 by a companion engraving from the “Phaethon” of the same painter. After West he engraved his fine plate of the “Battle of La Hogue” (1781), and “The Death of General Wolfe” (1776), which is usually considered Woollett's masterpiece. In 1775 he was appointed engraver-in-ordinary to George III.; and he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, of which for several years he acted as secretary. He died in London on the 23rd of May 1785.

In his plates, which unite work with the etching-needle, the dry-point and the graver, Woollett shows the greatest richness and variety of execution. In his landscapes the rendering of water is particularly excellent. In his portraits and historical subjects the rendering of flesh is characterized by great softness and delicacy. His works rank among the great productions of the English school of engraving. Louis Fagan, in his Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett (1885), has enumerated 123 plates by this engraver.

WOOLMAN. JOHN (1720-1772), American Quaker preacher, was born in Northampton, Burlington county, New Jersey, in August 1720. When he was twenty-one he went to Mount Holly, where he was a clerk in a store, opened a school for poor children and became a tailor. After 1743 he spent most of his time as an itinerant preacher, visiting meetings of the Friends in various parts of the colonies. In 1772 he sailed for London to visit Friends in the north of England, especially Yorkshire, and died in York of smallpox on the 7th of October. He spoke and wrote against slavery, refused to draw up wills transferring slaves, induced many of the Friends to set their negroes free, and in 1760 at Newport, Rhode Island, memorialized the Legislature to forbid the slave trade. In 1763 at Wehaloosing (now Wyalusing), on the Susquehanna, he preached to the Indians; and he always urged the whites to pay the Indians for their lands and to forbid the sale of liquor to them.

Woolman wrote Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754; part ii., 1762); Considerations on Pure Wisdom and Human Policy, on Labor, on Schools and on the Right Use of the Lord's Outward Gifts (1768); Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind, and How it is to be Maintained (1770); and A Word of Remembrance and Caution to the Rich (1793}; and the most important of his writings, The Journal of John Woolman: Life and Travels in the Service of the Gospel (1775), which was begun in his thirty-sixth year and was continued until the year of his death. The best known edition is that prepared, with an introduction, by John G. Whittier in 1871. The Works of John Woolman appeared in two parts at Philadelphia, in 1774-1775, and have been republished; a German version was printed in 1852.

WOOLNER, THOMAS (1825-1892), British sculptor and poet, was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on the 17th of December 1825. When a boy he showed talent for modelling, and when barely thirteen years old was taken as an assistant into the studio of William Behnes, and trained during four years. In December 1842 Woolner was admitted a student in the Royal Academy, and in 1843 exhibited his “Eleanor sucking Poison from the Wound of Prince Edward.” In 1844, among the competitive works for decorating the Houses of Parliament was his life-size group of “The Death of Boadicea.” In 1846 he had at the Royal Academy a graceful bas-relief of Shelley's “Alastor.” Then came (1847) “Feeding the Hungry,” a bas-relief, at the Academy; and at the British Institution a brilliant statuette