Great invention

Sunny and windy today but yesterday, just as a fellow came to give a quotation for trimming our overgrown hedges, the skies opened. We all traipsed around in the pouring rain. Thank goodness last year we finally graduated from collapsible umbrellas and bought ourselves largish, not quite golf, umbrellas.

It was so cold last night there was no drying but today did the trick.

Who was the wonderful person who invented umbrellas?