The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-25
Great Men who Rose from the Ranks.

Great Men who Rose from the Ranks.
From the barber shop rose Sir Richard
Arkwright, the inventor Of the spinning
jenny, and the founder Of the cotton
manufacture of Great Britain. Lord
Tenterden, one Of the most distinguished
OF English Lord Chief Justices; and
Turner, the very greatest among land
scape painters No one knows to a GER
tainty what Shakespeare was; but it is
unquestionable that he sprang from o
very humble rank. The common class Of
day laborers has given us Brindley tho
engineer Cook, the navigator; and Burns,
the poet Masons and brick layers can
boast Of Ben Jonson, who worked at the
building Of Lincoln,s Inn, with a trowel
in his hand and a book in his pocket
Edwards and Telford, the engineers;
Hugh Miller, the geologist and Allan
Cunningham, the writer and sculptor;
while among distinguished carpenters
we lind the names lingo Jones, the archi-
tect Harrison, the chronOmeter maker,
John Hunter, the physiologist Romney
and Opie, painters, Professor Lee, the
Orientalist; anc John Gibson, the sculptor.
From the weaver class have sprung Simp-
son, the mathematician; Bacon, the sculp-
tor; the two Miners, Adam Walker, John
Fostor; Wilson, the ornithologist DIR.
Livingstone, the missionary traveller; and
Tannahill, the poet. Shoemakers have
given us Sturgeon, the electrician; Samuel
Drew; the essayist; Clifford, the editor of
the Quarterly Review; Bloomfield, the
poet and William Carey, the missionary,
while Morrison, another laborious mis-
sionary, was maker Of shoe lasts. With
in the last year, o profound naturalist
has been discovered in the person of a
shoemaker, at Banff, named Thomas Ed
wards, who, while maintaining himselfby
his trade, has devoted his leisure to the
study of natural science in all its
branches, his researches in connection
with the smaller crustace@ having been
rewarded by the discovery of new spe-
cies to which the name of Praniza
Edcardail has been given by naturalist.
Nor have the tailors been altogether
undistinguished, jackson, the painter,
having worked at the trade until he
reached manhood. But what is, perhaps,
more remarkable, one of the gallantest of
British seamen, Admiral Hobson who
broke the boom at Vigo in 1902, origin.
ally belonged to this calling lie was
working as a tailor's apprentice near
Bonchurch, in the Isle Wig ght, when the
news flew through the village that a
squadron of men-Ofwar 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. The tailor-boy was suddenly
inaamed with the ambition to be sailor,
and springing into boat, he rowed off, to
the squadron, gained the admirals ship,
and was accepted as volunteer. Years
after he returned to his native village,
full of honors, and dined off bacon and
eggs in the cottage where he had worked
as a tailor's apprentice. Cordinal Wolsey,
DeFoe, Aikenside and Kirke White were
the sons Of butchers; Bunyan, was
tinker, and Joseph Lancaster basket
maker Among the great names iden-
tilted with the invention of the steam
engine are those of Newcomer, Watt,
and Stephenson; the first blacksmith,
the second maker of mathematical in
struments, and the third an engine fire.
man. DR.. Hutton, the geologist, and
Bowick, 1.-The father Of wood engraving,
were coalminers, Dodsley was foot
man, and Holcroft groom. BuAin the
navigator was common seaman, and Sir
Cloudesly Shovel a cabin-boy. Herschel
played the oboe in o military band.
Chantrey journeyman carver, Etty a
journeyman printer, and Sir Thomas
Lawrence the son of tavern-keeper.
Michael Faraday, the son of poor
blacksmith, was in early life apprenticed |
to book-binder, and worked at the trade
until he reached his twenty-second year.
He now occupies the very first rank as a
philosopher, excelling even his master,
Sir Humphrey Davy, in the art of lueidly
expounding the most difficult and abstruse
points in natural science. Not long ago
Sir Roderick Murchison discovered, at
Thurso, in the far north of Scotland, a
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 dclineated to him, by means
Of flour upon a board, the geographical
features and geological phenomena of his
native county, pointing out the imperfec- |
lions in the existing maps, which he had |
ascertained by travelling over the country |
N his leisure hours. On further inquiry, |
Sir Roderick ascertained that the humble |
Individual before him was not only a CAP
tul baker and geologist, but firstrate
,otanist. II found" said the Director
ieneral of the Geographical Society, Ito
ny great humiliation, that this baker
NEW infinitely more of botanical science,
lye, ten times more, than did; and that
here were onlysome twenty or thirtyspec.
mems of flowers which hc had not col.
ected. Some he had obtained as presents
ONE he had purchased; but the greater
'ortion had been accumulated BY his
industry, in his native county of Cath.
less, and the specimens were all arranged
n the most beautiful order, with their
cientifc names.-[selEHelp, by Samuel
'miles.