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James Montgomery was born November 4, 1771, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. At the age of seven, he was sent to the Fulneck Seminary in Yorkshire. In 1787, he left the seminary to work in a shop in Mirfield, near Wakefield. He soon grew tired of this, and moved to a similar position at Wath, near Rotherham, but soon realized that it was unsuitable as his previous job. He went to London to try to secure a publisher for the poems written in his youth, a venture that proved a failure. In 1792, he left Wath, and went to Sheffield, where he became an assistant to Mr. Gales, an auctioneer, bookseller, and printer of the Sheffield Register.
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