BAMFORD, SAMUEL. _b._ Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour, sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office London 1849–58; author of _Miscellaneous poetry_ 1821; _Passages in the life of a Radical 2 vols._ 1840–44; _Early days_ 1849 _2 ed._ 1859; _Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols._; _Talk o Seawth Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort_ 1850, in this volume he professes to correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; _Life of Amos Ogden of Middleton_ 1853. _d._ Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April 1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. _F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series_ 1877, _pp._ 462–91; _Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1881) 220–25. BAMFORD, WILLIAM. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. _d._ Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year. BAMPTON, AUGUSTUS HAMILTON. _b._ London 13 March 1823; civil engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation 1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of _The drainage of towns_ 1849. _d._ North hill Devon 4 March 1857. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvii_, 92–94 (1858). BANCALARI, PETER. _b._ 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many years. _d._ Oxford 31 Oct. 1869. BANDINEL, REV. BULKELEY (_eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92_). _b._ Oxford 21 Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823; chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox. 1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of the printed books _4 vols._ 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R. of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of _Catalogue of books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough_ 1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of _Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum_ 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in 8, and 1846, folio, _8 vols;_ edited _Clarendon’s History of the rebellion_ 1826. _d._ Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.