Joseph Gutteridge

Joseph Gutteridge (23 March 1816 – 4 November 1899) was an English silk weaver, microscopist and naturalist.

[2] Gutteridge started his career as an apprentice silk weaver and later became a repairer of Jacquard looms.

[2] He also worked for the weaver Thomas Stevens, the inventor of stevengraphs, and became a pioneer of silk brocades in five colours.

[1] Gutteridge became an atheist after attending debates at the Coventry Mutual Improvement Society, and became an Owenite socialist.

[1] Despite being ruined by the Treaty, he was "dogmatically committed to free trade as the poor man's best hope".