The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings

William Hogarth is said to have been the descendant of a family originally from Kirby Thore, in Westmorland. His grandfather was a plain yeoman who possessed a small tenement in the vale of Bampton a village about fifteen miles north of Kendal in that county and had three sons. The eldest assisted his father in farming and succeeded to his little freehold. The second settled in Troutbeck a village eight miles north west of Kendal and was remarkable for his talent at provincial poetry.