Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-02-24
GREAT MEN WHO ROSE FROM TIL
RANKS

RANKS.
From the barber shop rose Sir Richard
Arkwright, the inventor Of the spinning ien-
ny, and the founder of the cotton manufac-
lures Of Great Britain Lord Tenterdon one
Of the most distinguished Of English Lord
Chief Justices and Turner, the very greatest
among landscape painters. No one knows to
a certainty what Shakespeare was but it is
unquestionable that he sprang from an hum
BILE rank. The common class of our day la
borers has given us Brindley. the engineer
Cook, the navigator; and Burns the poet
Masons and brickayers can boast Of Ben Jon
son. who worked at the building Of Lincoln's
Inn, with trowel in his hand and a book in
his pocket; Edwards and Teford, the engi-
neers Hugh Miller, the geologist, and Allan
Cunningham, the writer and sculptor whilst
among distinguished carpenters we find the
names of lingo Jones, the architect Harri-
son, the chronometer maker John Hunter,
the physiologist; Romney and Opie. paint
ers Prof Lee, the Orentalist and John
Gibson, the sculptor. From the weaver class
have sprung Simpson, the mathematician I;
Bacon, the sculptor: the two Miners. Adam
Walker, John Foster, Wilson. the ornitholo-
gist; DR.. Livingstone, the missionary travel
er; and Tanuahill, the poet. Shoemakers
have given us Sturgeon, the electrician Sam
uel Drew, the essayist; Clifford, the editor Of
the Quarterly Reuiew Bloomfield, the poet ;
and VIM. Carey, the missionary whilst Nor
rison, another laborious missionary. was
maker of lasts. Within the last year, pro-
found naturalist has been discovered. in the
person Of a shoemaker Of Banf, named, Thos.
Edwards, who while maintaining himself by
his trade, has devoted his leisure to the study
Of natural science in all its branches, his re-
searches in this connection having been re-
wardcd by the discovery Of a new species to
which the name Of Praniza Edcardsi has been
given by naturalists.
Nor have the tailors been altogether undis-
tinguished, Jackson the painter. having work
ed at that trade until he reached manhood.
But what is, perhaps. more remarkable, one
Of the gallantest Of British seamen, Admiral
Hobson. who broke the boom of Vigo in / 7O2
originally belonged to this calling He was
working as a taior's apprentice near Bon
church, in the Isle of Wight, when the news
flew through the village that a squadron Of
men-ol-war were sailing off the island. He
sprang from the shop-board, and ran down
with his comrades to the beach to gaze upon
the glorious sight Tho tailor boy was sud-
denly inhamed with the ambition to be a sail
or and springing into a boat, he rowed off to
the squadron gained the admirals ship, and
was accepted as a volunteer Years after, he
returned to his native village full Of honors,
and dned off bacon and eggs in the cottage
where he worked as tailor's apprentice Car
dinal Wolsey, DeFoe. Akenside, and Kirk
White. were the sons Of butchers Bunyan
was tinker. and Jos. Lancaster basket
ID sd
with the invention Of the steam engine are
those Of Newcomer, Watt and Stephenson,
the first a blacksmith, the second a maker Of
mathematical instruments and the third an
engine fireman. DR.. Hutton, the geologist,
and Bewick the father of wood engraving,
were coal miners. Dodsley was a footman,
and Holcrott n groom Rutiin the navigator
was common seaman and Sir Cloudesley
Shovel cabin boy. Herschol played the
oboe in a military band, Chantry was jour
neyman carver, Etty a journeyman printer,
and Sir Thomas Lawrence the son of tav-
crn keeper.
Michael Faraday, the son Of poor black
smith, was in early life apprenticed to book
binder. and worked at that trade until he
reached his ;wert ty-socond year he now oc-
cupies the very first rank as philosopher, ox
CcllinJ even MS masters. DIR humphrey Ia
Wy. in the art Of lucidly expounding the most
difficult and ahstruse points in natural sci
ence. Not long ago Sir Roderck Murchison
discovered. at Thurso, in the far north Of
Scotland, profound geologist, in the person
Of baker there. named Robert Dick When
Sir Roderick called upon him at the bake
house, in which he baked and earned his
bread, Dick delineated to him, by means of
-four upon board, the geographical features
and geographical phenomena of his native
country, pointing out the imperiections in the
existing maps, which he had ascortained by
travelling over the country in his leisure
hours. On further inquiry. Sir Roderck as
certained that the humble individual before
him was not only a capital baker and geolo-
gist, but first rate botanist. 4 found, said
the Director General of the Geographical Soc-
ety. TO my great humiliation, he knew inf
nitely more of botanical science. ah ten times
more than | did, and that there were only
some twenty or thirty specimens of flowers
which he had not collected. Some he had
obtained as presents, some he had purchased,
but the greater portion he had accumulated by
his ndustfyin his native county of Caithness.
and the specimens were all arranged IN the
most beautiful order, with their scientific
names affixed.--Self Help By SanH Smiles.