A handloom weaver of Norland, near Sowerby Bridge, he became the most popular local preacher of his time in the Halifax and Soweby Bridge WM Circuits. Of small stature, with a crooked back, he preached wearing a black cloth suit with a white handkerchief round his neck. He was renowned for his graphic illustrations of his texts, on one occasion preaching (on Jeremiah 2:27) with his back to the congregation, and on another wringing a man's nose until it bled (Proverbs 30:33).

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