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This writer,—a poet of the people, in the truest and worthiest sense,—was born at Blackpool on April 19th, 1865; and came to Blackburn, with his brother "Jack o' Ann's" and the rest of their family, in 1870. Here William was sent to Nova Scotia School, which, however, he had to leave, when he was only twelve years of age, on "passing full time" and becoming a factory worker. In November, 1888, he published at Blackburn a little volume of dialect poems entitled "Bits o' Broad Lancashire." These poems had previously appeared, week by week, in the "Blackburn Standard"; and the book containing them was dedicated to Edwin Waugh, who, along with Ben Brierley and Samuel Laycock, had written, in terms of praise and approval, of the poems and their publication.

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