Byrom

Byrom, John, poet and stenographer, was born in 1692 at Kersall Cell, Broughton, near Manchester. After graduating at Cambridge and studying medicine, he began to teach a new system of shorthand in London, Parliament in 1742 conferring on him, as the inventor, the sole right of teaching this system for twenty-one years. He died in 1763. Ten years later his poems were first collected and published. They show great facility in rhyming, and are humorous and satirical.