Thomas Hampson (1839 – 25 November 1918) was an English author and local historian.
He was born in Horwich in 1839,[1] the youngest child of Henry and Mary Hampson.
[1] He married Sarah Jane Aldred at Holy Trinity Church, Horwich on 2 April 1866.
[13] It was around this period of his life he wrote a number of notable local history books.
[16][N1] After Horwich Works were built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) in 1886, he was employed as a labourer in the iron foundry,[17] then as a locomotive stores keeper.