PRESTON

Benjamin (son of a hand loom weaver). b. Bradford 10 Aug. 1819; a wool sorter and comber; a publican at Bingley common May 1865; called the Burns of Bradford; author of The dialect poems of Benjamin Preston, Saltaire 1872 with a memoir and portrait; Dialect and other poems 1881. S. Baring Gould’s Yorkshire oddities i 267–79 (1874).