Henry Burstow (1826–1916) was a shoemaker and bellringer from Horsham, Sussex, best known for his vast repertoire of songs, many of which were collected in the folksong revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was also the author of Reminiscences of Horsham, which gives a lively picture of life in a rural town in the mid-nineteenth century.
Read more about Henry Burstow: Life and Character, Folksongs, Reminiscences of Horsham
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)