Author: Kenworthy, Charles
Biography:
KENWORTHY, Charles (1773-1850: findmypast.com)
He was born in Manchester to working-class parents, Thomas and Catherine Kenworthy, on 12 Sept. 1773 and was baptised on 10 Oct. Within a few years, the family moved to Preston, where he went to school and was later apprenticed to a pattern-maker. At the end of his term he returned to Manchester to work at his trade and to contribute poems to the local papers, starting with the Manchester Gazette. A contemporary described him at 76 as having been a regular in the Manchester Guardian for thirty years. His final collection was published by subscription. He may have been the Charles Kenworthy who married Elizabeth Kitchen in Manchester in 1797 but he was not the only person of that name in Manchester and there are no references to marriage or children in other accounts of him. He died on 31 Jul. 1850 and was buried in the Dissenters' Burial Ground, Rusholme Road Cemetery, in Manchester. (findmypast.com 24 May 2021; W. E. A. Axon, ed., Annals of Manchester [1886] 254; Goodridge; John Evans, Lancashire Authors and Orators [1850] 150-3; Manchester Times 10 Aug. 1850) HJ