Date:1816
Description:George Davis was born in Wood Street, Birmingham about 1768, of parents who were 'miserably poor' and could not afford to educate him. When he was 10 years old a 'respectable individual' succeeded in placing him at the Free Grammar School in New Street. After leaving school at 14 he was apprenticed to Swinney of the Birmingham & Staffordshire Chronicle to learn the art of printing. He made rapid progress and occassionally contributed poems to the newspaper. His parents died when he was still an apprentice and his intended bride died in 1792. After this he took to drinking, and sold his work in public houses. He died in the workhouse and was buried at St Phillip's. This poem was written for the second centenary of the death of Shakespeare in 1816. 413435 MS 3456
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