, a diligent schoolmaster, was many years settled in Wapping, and
, a diligent schoolmaster, was
many years settled in Wapping, and is known by an useful “Spelling Book,
” where, in imitation of his predecessors, he has favoured the public with a print of himself.
He wrote besides, “The young Book-keeper’s Assistant,
”
8vo. “The Schoolmaster’s Assistant,
” 12mo; and
3. “Miscellaneous Arithmetic,
” 12mo, all of them manytimes printed. He died Jan. 17, 1780. To this brief notice, from the last edition of this Dictionary, perhaps of
little importance, we may add, that there was, about fifty
or sixty years ago, a W. H. Dilworth, M. A. the author of
many abridged Lives and Histories, price one shilling
each, “adorned with cuts,
” such as “The Life of Alexander Pope, esq. with the Secret History of Himself and
the Noble Lords his patrons;
” “The Life of Dean Swift,
with a thousand agreeable incidents,
” &c. &c. He appears
to have been the legitimate successor of Robert Burton,
and probably, like him, may one day be elevated from the
hawker’s stall to the collector’s library.