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Samuel B. Goslin

Best known for writing clear, practical guides to bell ringing, this Victorian author brought a hands-on knowledge of bells and metalwork to his books. His work still appeals to readers curious about the craft, history, and technique of ringing.

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First Steps to Bell Ringing Being an Introduction to the Healthful and Pleasant Exercise of Bell Ringing in Rounds and Changes upon Church Bells

First Steps to Bell Ringing Being an Introduction to the Healthful and Pleasant Exercise of Bell Ringing in Rounds and Changes upon Church Bells

by Samuel B. Goslin

About the author

Samuel Benjamin Goslin was a British writer and metalworker born in Kennington on February 6, 1845. He worked as a foundry foreman for John Warner & Sons at the Cripplegate Bell Foundry, a role that helps explain the confident, practical tone of his books on bells and ringing.

He is best known for First Steps to Bell Ringing, first published in 1877, and for The A.B.C. of Musical Hand-Bell Ringing and The Musical Hand-Bell Ringer's Instructor. His writing was aimed at beginners, offering short, accessible lessons for people learning the basics of church-bell and hand-bell ringing. He also contributed articles to A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, where his work was identified by the initials "S.B.G."

Goslin's interests ranged beyond ringing into engineering and metalworking, and he also wrote on technical subjects. After his first wife's death, he later remarried and eventually ran his own business, the Bishopsgate Foundry and Art Metal Works. He died on October 6, 1918. No confirmed portrait image was found in the sources reviewed.