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Abbott
Lawrence (1792 - 1855)
Ambassador from the USA
Lawrence represented America at the opening ceremony. He invested
his wealth, made by importing British goods into America, in the
textile industry around Boston, Massachusetts. In 1845 he founded
the city of Lawrence, America's first planned industrial city, north
of Boston, where thousands of immigrants produced hundreds of miles
of cloth a day. The democratic Americans were surprised at the involvement
of English royalty at the Exhibition. Lawrence said: 'The time has
come when labor … must be respected…. It is to the efforts of the
labourer, that every country must be mainly indebted for its glory
and its power.'.
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