Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountain climber.Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. And Spouse of Elizabeth Grimshaw. Hargreaves received no formal education and was unable to read or write. It is claimed that one day his daughter Jenny, accidentally knocked over over the family spinning wheel. Then came the long-running Out of Town, first in a Southern region only, then on the ITV network, with Hargreaves reminiscing on old rural ways and customs. James Hargreaves, Inventor of the Spinning Jenny. Inventor. James Hargreaves is generally credited * for inventing the spinning jenny, one of the most important devices for advancement of the production of cotton textiles in Lancashire County during the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 or 1765 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. He worked as a carpenter and weaver but had a strong interest in engineering. Hargreaves was a largely self-taught weaver from Lancashire, who invented the spinning jenny in 1764 and patented it in 1770. Home Page. Hargraves had taught them Californian panning techniques and how to make and use a wooden cradle. The increased speed of weaving created a new problem because it now took three spinners to keep up with one weaver. James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny. She soloed all the great north faces of the Alps in a single season—a first for any climber. Richard's parents, Sarah and Thomas, could not afford to send him to school and instead arranged for him to be taught to read and write by his cousin Ellen. In fact, he seems to have worked as a weaver for most of his life. James Hargreaves, English inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine. At the time he devised the machine, he was a poor, uneducated spinner and weaver living at Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The oatent had enabled him to take action against the manufacuturers, but unfortunately, the action was withdrawn. The idea that Hargreaves named his invention after either his wife or his daughter is also a long-standing myth. This story, however, is a legend. By the 1760s Hargreaves was living in the village of Stanhill and was one of the many weavers who owned his own spinning wheel and loom. James Hargreaves was a weaver living in the village of Stanhill in Lancashire. James Hargreaves recieved a patent on his invention in 1770. The thread, now, was increased to eighty from just eight.