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)