Samuel Bamford (28 February 1788 – 13 April 1872)[1] was an English radical reformer and writer born in Middleton, Lancashire. He wrote on the subject of northern English dialect and wrote some of his better known verse in it.
- ^ S. Bamford, "Early Days", (London 1849) p. 1: "I have always been given to understand that I was brought into this world on the 28th day of February in the "Gallic era-eighty eight" [1788].