Roe, Charles
(1715–1781)
- Dorothy Bentley Smith
- and A. P. Woolrich
Extract
Roe, Charles (1715–1781), industrialist, the youngest of the eight children of Thomas Roe (1670–1723), vicar of Castleton, Derbyshire, and his wife, Mary Turner, was born on 7 May 1715 at Castleton and baptized there on 2 June 1715. When he was eight, on the death of his father, ...