Author: Hampson, William
Biography:
HAMPSON, William (1770-1834: findmypast.com)
He was a gentleman farmer and substantial landowner in the neighbourhood of Dukenfield in Cheshire, where he was baptised at the Presbyterian Old Chapel on 13 Mar. 1770, the son of John Hampson (d 1790). His mother's name is not known. He had a gentleman's education and did not attend university. His publications are few: the occasional poem Dukinfield Lodge (1793), celebrating the country house of his neighbours the Hays; a paper on a method for keeping insects out of fruit trees communicated to the SA in 1795 and included in their Transactions; and a pamphlet on the management of cows (1796). He is also recorded as the lay author of three hymns in the Dukinfield Collection of 1822. About 1800 he married a woman whose first name was Hannah but whose maiden name has not been found. They had six daughters born and baptised in Dukinfield between 1801 and 1813. He died in 1834 and was interred in the burial ground of the Old Chapel on 22 Nov. (findmypast.com 21 Jan. 2022; ancestry.com 21 Jan. 2022; Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturing, and Commerce 13 [1795] 172-7; John Aikin, A Description of the Country . . . round Manchester [1795] 451-2; hymnary.org 21 Jan. 2022)
Other Names:
- W. Hampson