author

Sidney Gilpin

d. 1892

Best known for gathering the songs, ballads, and dialect verse of Cumberland, this 19th-century editor helped preserve a lively corner of northern English literary life. His work remains a useful doorway into local tradition, folklore, and regional speech.

1 Audiobook

Wrestling and Wrestlers Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting

Wrestling and Wrestlers Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting

by Jacob Robinson, Sidney Gilpin

About the author

Sidney Gilpin was a 19th-century English editor and writer remembered chiefly for collecting and presenting the poetry and song traditions of Cumberland and the Lake Country. He is credited with editing The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland in 1866 and later The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country, works that brought together regional ballads, dialect poems, notes, and biographical sketches of local writers.

Listings for his books also connect him with Carlisle and describe him as being of "Derwent Cottage," suggesting a strong local tie to the Cumberland area he wrote about. Another work associated with him is Wrestling and Wrestlers, published after his death, which fits with his broader interest in Cumbrian culture and customs.

Reliable biographical detail on his personal life is quite limited in the sources I could confirm, beyond the common catalog note that he died in 1892. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the pages I checked, so none is included here.