George Stockley Cunyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1891)
“ His parents were members of the Society of Friends, and he appears to have been educated at the Friends' School at Bradford. He became a wool-stapler, and was an active worker and minister among the Friends. He deeply interested himself in the development of Bradford, promoting the building of a markethouse, shambles, and other conveniences, and projecting in 1782 a new street, connecting Ivegate and Kirkgate, since completed and called New Street. ”
