BARBERS AND SONS OF BARBERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3150, 2 August 1881, Page 4

BARBERS AND SONS OF BARBERS.

Turner the greatest of English landscape painters, was the son of a barber in Maiden Lane, London. Sir Richard Arkwrighfc, whose invention of the spinning jenny, and other machinery connected with cotton weaving, founded a new and important branch of our national industry, in early life kept a shop for cheap haircutting and shaving at Preston. Out of a barber's shop at Canterbury came the future Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, Lord Charles Abbott Tenterden, who, as a boy, assisted his father in the business, and went with him to the houses of those upon whom lie professionally waited. Lord St. Leonards (Lord Chancellor of England) was also the son of a hairdresser. So was Bishop JeremyTaylor, whose father was a barber afc Cambridge. Another Taylor (Dr. John Taylor, Archdeacon of Buckingham and Canon of St. Paul's) was also a barber's son at Shrewsbury. The father of the celebrated Belzoni (athlete and traveller) was a barber at Padua. John Folez, an old German poet, was himself a barber. John Kershaw, the founder of the celebrated printing firm afc Leeds, began life as a barber. He had always in his shop a plentiful supply of newspapers and periodicals, that could be read by his customers while they were waiting to be shaved. He received orders to supply these regularly to certain customers, which circumstance proved to be tho foundation of his future business. As he devoted himself on Sundays to teaching in a Sunday school, his barber's shop bore the somewhat unusual notice, " This shop is closed on Sundays."— Leisure Hour.