This 18th century satirist mocked the absurdities of human behavior

In 18th-century Lancashire, a poor schoolteacher named John Collier reinvented himself as 'Tim Bobbin,' a cartoonist whose illustrations mocked the absurdities of society.
Collier died in 1786 with only £50. His gravestone epitaph, written by himself, reads: 'Jack of all trades… left to lie i'th dark.' — Read the rest
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