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Samuel Bamford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel Bamford, was born on 28th February 1788 in Middleton, near Manchester. Samuel's father, Daniel, was a handloom weaver of muslin, part-time schoolteacher, and a composer of religious songs. Daniel and his wife Hannah, the daughter of a local shoemaker, were both staunch Methodists.
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1788–1872, English weaver, poet, and social reformer. Always sympathetic toward the working class, he was jailed in 1819 for his part in the Peterloo ...
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SAMUEL Bamford was a radical whose reputation was always slightly more impressive than the reality. ... Born in Middleton near Oldham in 1788 into a muslin-weaving family, Sam Bamford's main claim to fame was his writing, poetry and prose in support of the working man. Works like Passages ... Samuel Bamford: poet and reformer...
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The poetry and prose - including 'Passages in the Life of a Radical' - of 'The Middleton Poet', Samuel Bamford (1788-1872). ... SAMUEL BAMFORD; (1788-1872); Silk weaver, radical, poet and participant in the; "Peterloo Massacre"
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Bamford was a silk weaver and an active radical. He participated in the famous demonstration at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, in August 1819. At this demonstration, troops moved in to break up the unarmed crowd.
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From The Autobiography of Samuel Bamford. ... • Bamford, Samuel: The Autobiography of Samuel Bamford, Volume One: Early Days, together with an account of the arrest, &c., Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. 1967 ... Many of the other works of Sam Bamford, including newspaper articles and letters, are held at the Local Studies Library...
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Samuel Bamford (1788-1872): 'Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, revised and corrected, with his rhymes, and an enlarged glossary of words and phrases chiefly used. Published by the author, Manchester, 1850. ... John Collier, minister of Stretford, Collier, an inveterate poet and writer,
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Autobiography of Samuel Bamford (1788-1872), 'The Middleton Poet'. Volume 1: edited by Henry Dunckley and published by T. Unwin Fisher, London, 1893. ... There were eight of them, and one of the number was a young man named Samuel Bamford, a native of Middleton and a weaver by trade, whom we wish to introduce to those of...
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Books by; Samuel Bamford ... Born in 1788 in Middleton, the son of a muslin weaver, Bamford was educated at The Manchester Grammar School, and worked as a weaver in Middleton. Always interested in literature and poetry, he studied the classical works of Homer and Milton, before developing his own poetry and a strong...
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