BAMFORD

Samuel . b. Middle ton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; a handloom weaver at Middle ton; secretary to the Hampden club at Middle ton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York a izes March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour, sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office London 1849–58; author of Miscellaneous poetry 1821; Pa ages in the life of a Radical 2 vols. 1840–44; Early days 1849 2 ed. 1859; Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols. ; Talk o Seawth Lankeshur by Samhul Be am fort 1850, in this volume he profe es to correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; Life of Amos Ogden of Middle ton 1853. d. Most on, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April 1872; monument in Middle ton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. F. Espina e’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series 1877, pp. 462–91; Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1881) 220–25.