ABSTRACT
I WAS born in 1857, the year of the Indian Mutiny. My father was a wool-stapler, a merchant in wool, and my mother, his second wife, the daughter of a farmer. My father's office was in the Piece Hall, Halifax, then the headquarters of the Yorkshire textile industry. His father had been a textile manufacturer at Mytholmes, near Haworth, and not far from the village of Newsholme. This grandfather had been largely responsible for the introduction of Sunday schools into this moorland part of Yorkshire, and a local tablet commemorating his work for Sunday schools is still to be seen in the village of Oakworth, near Haworth.
