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Radical reformer from Lancashire, England, 1788–1872

Samuel Bamford (28 February 1788 – 13 April 1872)^[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 1788 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 1810, he married Jemema (or Jemima) Sheppard at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, now known as Man