Samuel Laycock

Samuel Laycock (1826–1893) was a dialect poet who recorded in verse the vernacular of the Lancashire cotton workers.

He was born on 17 January 1826 at Intake Head, Pule Hill, Marsden, West Yorkshire, the son of John Laycock, a hand-loom weaver.

In 1837, when the family moved to Stalybridge, Cheshire, he worked as a cotton weaver and later cloth looker.

In 1850, Laycock married Martha Broadbent, a cotton weaver, but she died two years later.

Laycock died of influenza which developed into acute bronchitis[2] on 15 December 1893, at his home, 48 Foxhall Road, Blackpool.