Lewis Paul

In 1741, he set up a machine powered by two asses in the Upper Priory in Birmingham, near his house in Old Square.

Cave died on 10 January 1754, so that the mill passed to his brother William and his nephew Paul.

The Caves forfeited the lease for non-payment of rent in March 1761 and advertised the mill to let in November 1761.

In 1748, Daniel Bourn and Lewis Paul separately obtained patents for carding machines, which were presumably used in the Leominster and Northampton mills respectively.

The principle of his rolling spinning process was perfected by John Kay and Thomas Highs and promoted by Richard Arkwright.