Editing Samuel Greg (section)

==Heirs==
In 1832, Greg was attacked by a stag in the grounds of [[Quarry Bank Mill]]. The injury led to his retirement.  By this time, it had become the largest spinning and weaving business in the United Kingdom. Greg never recovered from the attack and died two years later.

Of Hannah and Samuel's thirteen children [[Robert Hyde Greg]] continued in the textile business and became a Member of Parliament for Manchester in 1839 opposed to extension of the franchise and to factory legislation; Samuel Rathbone Greg had little inclination for business and developed a career as a writer and critic publishing in 1840 ''Past and Present Efforts for the Extinction of the African Slave Trade'' in which he argued that cotton, sugar and coffee could be grown more cheaply by free labour; Elizabeth Greg (married to [[William Rathbone V]]) founded the first [[Baths and wash houses in Britain|public wash-houses in the United Kingdom]] in the wake of the [[Cholera epidemic of 1831|1832 cholera epidemic]], and later helped [[William Edward Forster|William Forster]] in formulating the [[Education Act 1870|1870 Education Act]].<ref>Transcript of interpretive board at Quarry Bank Mill</ref> Ellen Maria married [[George Melly (MP)|George Melly]] and he and their daughter [[Florence Melly]] took an interest in improving education.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Stewart |first=Elizabeth J. |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-55914 |title=Melly, George (1830–1894), politician and merchant |date=2012-05-24 |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/55914|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>

The estate and mill were eventually inherited by Robert Hyde Greg  and then by Alexander Carlton Greg, who donated the site in 1939 to the [[National Trust]].<ref>[https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank/features/the-history-of-quarry-bank-mill the Greg Family]</ref>