John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. Wikipedia
Born: February 29, 1692, Manchester, United Kingdom
Died: September 26, 1763 (age 71 years), Manchester, United Kingdom
Children: Elizabeth Byrom and Edward Byrom
Books
The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom
The Poems Of John Byrom
Life of Humphrey Chetham, Founder of the Chetham Hospital and Library, Manchester, Vol. I, Pp. 1-208
Miscellaneous Poems, Volume 2
The Poems of John Byrom, Volume 30
A Letter to a friend, containing a comparative view of the two systems of Short-hand respectively invented by Mr. Byrom and Dr. Mavor