Details of Sculptor

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Surname	Simpkin	Alternative Surname
First Name	John, of Bottesford	Initial of Surname	S
Year of Birth/Baptism	1749	Flourished
Year of Death	1816
Biographical Details	He had much of the Kesteven trade in slate headstones, signing 47 known works, 30 of them at Woolsthorpe, Lincs. They are competent but lack the ingenuity of Francis Lamb, who appears to have been his master. Literary References: Neave and Heron 1969, 5