1867 to the Catalan inventor Jacint Barrau. The new loom was built at Manningham Mills by Jaume Reixach, Barrau's foreman and Lister's Mill director afterwards, and made him very rich. However, the business was seriously affected by the prohibitory duties imposed by the United States, making him an early critic of the British policy of free trade. Honours In 1887 he was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire. In 1891 he was made a peer; he took his title from the little Yorkshire town of Masham, close to which is Swinton Park, purchased by him in 1888. In 1898, Lister was awarded the freedom of the City of Bradford. He died at Swinton Park on 2 February 1906, and was succeeded by his son, Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham. Lister Park A statue of him now stands in Lister Park, in Manningham, Bradford, West Yorkshire, sculpted by Matthew Noble from a block of white Sicilian marble and unveiled on Saturday 15 May 1875 by W. E. Forster, then Member of Parliament for Bradford. Lister Park was donated to the people of Bradford by Lister. Arms See also Samuel Lister Academy References External links Archival material at Leeds University Library 1815 births 1906 deaths Businesspeople from Bradford English inventors Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom High Sheriffs of Yorkshire Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria 19th-century English businesspeople