Samuel Bamford
(1788-1872)

radical reformer

Died aged 84

Samuel Bamford (28 February 1788 – 13 April 1872) 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.

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The beginnings of female emancipation in the UK originate in this field in Lydgate where, on 4 May 1818, women were first recorded as being given the opportunity to vote in a political meeting. The meeting was organised by a radical reformer, Samuel Bamford, and is recorded in the National Archive

Lydgate, Oldham, United Kingdom where they organised (1818)