MOGRIDGE

George (son of Mathias Mogridge of Ashted, Birmingham, canal agent). b. Ashted 17 Feb. 1787; an apprentice to a japanner 1801; partner with his elder brother Mathias Mogridge in the Japan trade at Birmingham 1811, his brother retired from the busine with a fortune, and he became a bankrupt 1826; commenced a literary life 1826; author of Twelve moral tales by Uncle Newbury 1828; The moral budget of my Aunt Newbury 1835; Ephraim Holding’s Homely hints to Sunday school teachers 1843; Cheerful chapters adapted to youth, by Old Alan Gray 1854; The Chinese, by Uncle Adam 1845; under the names of Old Humphrey 1839 etc., and Peter Parley 1836 etc., he also wrote very numerous books; wrote under his own name The churchyard lyrist, five hundred original inscriptions 1832; Footprints of popery, or places where martyrs have suffered 1843; Amos Arm field or leather covered bibles 1845; Learning to act 1846; Wanderings in the Isle of Wight 1846; Things that have wings 1851; Sunny seasons of boyhood 1859; Who is my neighbour 1868, and 50 other books many of them anonymous; for the Religious Tract soc. he wrote 106 books and tracts; resided at 114 Cornwall road, London. d. 4 High Wickham, Hastings 2 Nov. 1854. C. Williams’s George Mogridge, his life, character and writings (1856), portrait ; Memoir of Old Humphrey (1855), portrait .