Samuel Bradburn: The Shoemaker who became President of the Wesleyan Conference CHAPTER IV. William Gifford: From the Shoemaker's Stool to the Editor's Chair CHAPTER V. Robert Bloomfield: The Shoemaker who wrote "The Farmer's Boy" CHAPTER VI. Samuel Drew: The Metaphysical Shoemaker CHAPTER VII. William Carey: The Shoemaker who Translated the Bible into Bengali and Hindostani CHAPTER VIII. John Pounds: The Philanthropic Shoemaker CHAPTER IX. Thomas Cooper: The Self-educated Shoemaker who "Reared his own Monument" CHAPTER X. A Constellation of Celebrated Cobblers ANCIENT EXAMPLES. The Cobbler and the Artist Apelles The Shoemaker Bishops: Annianas, Bishop of Alexandria, and Alexander, Bishop of Comana The Pious Cobbler of Alexandria "Rabbi Jochanan, The Shoemaker" EUROPEAN EXAMPLES: _France_. SS. Crispin and Crispianus: The Patron Saints of Shoemakers "The Learned Baudouin" Henry Michael Buch: "Good Henry" _Germany._ Hans Sachs: "The Nightingale of the Reformation" Jacob Boehmen: The Mystic _Italy._ Gabriel Cappellini: "il Caligarino" Francesco Brizzio: The Artist _Holland._ Ludolph de Jong: The Portrait-Painter Sons of Shoemakers GREAT BRITAIN. "Ye Cocke of Westminster" Timothy Bennett: The Hero of Hampton-Wick _Military and Naval Heroes._ The Souters of Selkirk Watt Tinlinn Colonel Hewson: The "Cerdon" of Hudibras Sir Christopher Myngs, Admiral _Astrologers and others._ Dr. Partridge Dr. Ebenezer Sibly, F.R.C.P. 222 Manoah Sibly, Short-hand Writer, Preacher, etc Mackey, "the Learned Shoemaker" of Norwich, and two other Learned Shoemakers Anthony Purver, Bible Revisionist _The Poets of the Cobbler's Stall._ James Woodhouse, the Friend of Shenstone John Bennet, Parish Clerk and Poet Richard Savage, the Friend of Pope Thomas Olivers, Hymn-Writer Thomas Holcroft, Dramatist, Novelist Joseph Blacket, "The Son of Sorrow" David Service and other Songsters of the Shoemaker's Stall John Struthers, Poet and Editor John O'Neill, the Poet of Temperance John Younger, Fly-Fisher and Corn-Law Rhymer Charles Crocker, "The Poor Cobbler of Chichester" _Preachers and Theologians._ George Fox, Founder of the Society of Friends Thomas Shillitoe, the Shoemaker who stood before Kings John Thorp, Founder of the Independent Church at Masboro' William Huntingdon, S.S. Robert Morrison, D.D., Chinese Scholar and Missionary Rev. John Burnet, Preacher and Philanthropist John Kitto, D.D., Biblical Scholar _Science._ William Sturgeon, the Electrician _Politicians._ Thomas Hardy, of "The State Trials" George Odger, Political Orator AMERICAN EXAMPLES.