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... of: The Spa Fields Riots (1816), The Derbyshire Rising (1817), The Peterloo Masacre (1819) and lastly The Cato Street Conspiracy (1820). Crompton - Biography Samuel Crompton was born in 1753 in Firwood, Bolton. The son of a small farmer, he lived in Darwen, a small village about nine miles north of Bolton. Samuel married Mary Pimlott from New Heys Hall, near Warrington at Bolton Parish Church on 16th February 1780. Crompton had eight children with his wife, who died on May 29th 1796. Two children later died with sickness. During his life, Crompton invented the Spinning Mule. He worked for five years to perfect his machine and financed his work by playing the fiddle at Bolton Theatre for a few pence a show. The wood and iron contraption that was to change the world cost him "every shilling I had in the world." Crompton was too poor to even apply for a ...