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Search for images. Page 1 of 2. It deals with all levels of society. Altercation John Collier — Choir John Collier — Human Passions John Collier — As well as the paintings he produced inn signs for the pubs where he would often ply his trade as a caricaturist. His print portfolio, Human Passions Delineated , combined his verse with his caricatures and it is probably this which lot of people know him for today. This however was not to be as his father in his forty sixth year was deprived of his sight: this was a blow to young John now in his fourteenth year, for it meant the interruption of his education and he was required to make some contribution to the family finances.
His parents decided that he should be apprenticed to a dutch loom weaver of Newton Moor in the parish of Mottram, a trade to which he seems to have had an aversion, since he only served his master for the period of little more than a year before he managed to persuade him to cancel his indentures.
It is a mute point as to whether his master was swayed by. Now in his sixteenth year and free to follow his own inclination he became an itinerant schoolmaster, which whilst not being a lucrative profession seems to have quite suited his easy going temperament. During this time he was employed in a variety of places,. Middleton, Bury, 0ldham and Rochdale, and in the villages between, until nearing the age of twenty-one he became engaged as an usher to Mr Pearson, Curate and schoolmaster of the free school at Milnrow.
The school had been built by Mr Townley of Belfield Hall near Milnrow who also nominated the schoolmaster at a salary of twenty pounds a year which in this instance was shared by the curate with his assistant.
Colonel Townley son of Mr Townley became the patron of Tim Bobbin during his lifetime, and his biographer after death. With the remuneration he received from the curate and fees from a night school, our hero was quite content, not being himself anxious for riches, nor for high office, for the love of money does not appear among his vices. A man with a most pleasant disposition and an entertaining conversational manner, he soon became a favourite companion of other like minded persons in the Milnrow neighbourhood.
In his spare time young John amused himself taking lessons in drawing and learning to play the English flute and the hautboy or oboe, becoming sufficiently skilled in these accomplishments to be well qualified in the instruction of others.
As an artist he became skilled in landscape painting and produced many tasteful pictures of the locality. As a portrait painter he was not so proficient. He also. He also began to write poetry at this time having previously written nothing more than a few satires on local worthies and eccentrics; possessing an ascerbic wit, like Robert Burns, he would lampoon well known local characters, particularly any who might offend him, but as there was no one else in the area considered capable of such pieces he invariably bore the blame as the author.
As the congregation hurried into chapel he forgot he was. Realising the amusement at his expense to make the best of it and continued to wear the necklace for some time after the service, the upshot of this episode was that several of the young bloods of the neighbourhood took to imitating him and were to be seen wearing similar ornaments.
Such behaviour may seem strange to our more sophisticated minds but one must remember that in the eighteenth century the population was less educated than now and there was a shortage of amusement for the majority of the population who could not even read or write. It was however, hardly a poetic. In penmanship, however, he excelled, writing in a fine strong hand, and carrying on a steady correspondence throughout his life with friends and relations and this along with his duties as schoolmaster, his skill as a musician, and the convivial hours he spent with his cronies in the local inns, ensured that his ten years as a bachelor at Milnrow were perhaps the happiest of his days.
His life. On realising this he set about correcting the omission, soon finding the answer to his problem in Miss Mary Clay of Flockton. John Collier is widely regarded as a pioneer of the Lancashire dialect as a literary vehicle. For most of his working life he was master of the village school of Milnrow, near Rochdale.
To supplement his income and support his large family, he taught himself to draw grotesque caricatures, which found a ready sale in local inns, and wrote a number of books and pamphlets on local themes under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin.
His most famous book is A view of the Lancashire Dialect by way of a dialogue between Tummus and Meary It was the first scientific attempt at a survey of the Lancashire dialect and had an enormous influence on later dialect writers. It was published in London in
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