Surname: Davlin Forename(s): Charles b. 1793. d. February 1871. Nationality: English.
Working-class poet and Chartist. Born in Carlisle, Cumbria. Employed as a marine and
eventually a hand-loom weaver. Moved to Bolton, Lancashire, in 1829. Contributed to
Northern Star. Biographical information: Mike Sanders, The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 225-28; Archibald Sparke, Bibliographia Boltoniensis: Being a Bibliography, with biographical details of Bolton
Authors, and the books written by them from 1550 to 1912; books about Bolton; and
those printed and published in the Town from 1785 to date, Manchester University Press, 1913, p. 55. (CC)