Famous Inhabitants
The early American printer William Bradford was born here. Wigan Athletic and former Liverpool and Coventry City goalkeeper Chris Kirkland grew up in the village. Fiona Pilkington was driven to suicide here with her severely disabled daughter in 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)