Samuel bamford autobiography for kids

Radical reformer from Lancashire, England, –

Samuel Bamford (28 February – 13 April )^[1] was an English radical reformer and writer born in Middleton, Lancashire.

He wrote on the subject of northern English dialect and wrote some of his better known verse in it.

Biography

Bamford was one of five children born to Daniel Bamford (a muslin weaver and part-time teacher, and later master of the Salford workhouse), and his wife, Hannah.

He was baptised on 11 April at St Leonard's Church, Middleton.^[2][3]

After his father withdrew him from Manchester Grammar School, Bamford became a weaver and then a warehouseman in Manchester.^[4] Exposure to Homer's Iliad and to the poems of John Milton influenced Bamford to begin writing poetry himself.^[4]

On 24 June , he married Jemema (or Jemima) Sheppard at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, now known as Manchester Cathedral.^[5&