Entries for the tag ‘Bywater, Abel (1795-1873)’
Sheffield awl-blade maker, druggist, dialect and moralising pamphleteer - see the memoir by his friend Albert Middleton in the 1877 3rd edition of Sheffield Dialect. 
- 7 May 1831: In a spoof letter to the new and liberal William IV, a Sheffield metalworker expresses, in dialect, his hopes for the Reform Act and the election then underway
- 5 December 1859: Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and the cousin of the then French emperor, has work for Charles Rogers, Barnsley dialect writer
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