Ralph Slater

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| name = Ralph Slater

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| image = File:Marsh Mill 2023.jpg

| caption = Marsh Mill, built by Slater in 1794

| birth_date = 1754

| birth_place = Barton, Preston

| death_date = 1830 (aged 75–76)

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| nationality = British

| known_for = Lancashire windmills

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Ralph Slater (1754–1830)Register: Burials 1813 - 1887, Page 167, Entry 1332 Source: LDS Film 1470949 was an English millwright, active in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th, ostensibly known for his windmills on the Fylde in Lancashire, England. One of them, Marsh Mill, is a Grade II* listed building.{{Citation

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|title=Listed Buildings

|access-date=13 June 2011

|work=National Heritage List for England

|publisher=English Heritage

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Personal life

Slater was born in 1754 in Barton, Preston. He married Margery Speakman (1742–1814) on 25 April 1775.Lancashire's Architectural Heritage: An Anthology of Fine Buildings, John Champness (1989), p. 83 {{isbn|9780902228719}} They had four children together and lived in Pilling.

He died in 1830, aged 75 or 76.

Selected works

Marsh Mill, Thornton (1794)[https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2007/08/23/bus_windmill.shtml "Meet the miller"] – BBC Lancashire, 14 June 2007
Damside Windmill, Pilling (1808)The industrial archaeology of north-west England, Owen Ashmore (1982), p. 216 {{isbn|9780719008207}}
Clifton Mill, Clifton