![]() ![]() During his childhood, he adopted Jacobite ideas and held Tory ideas in addition to his Jacobite sympathies, even though his community was strict Whig and Nonconformist. Of these, Dick Turpin was a favourite of Ainsworth. Besides the community, Ainsworth read romantic works as a child and enjoyed stories dealing with either adventure or supernatural themes. The area influenced Ainsworth with its historical and romantic atmosphere, which existed until the community was later replaced by commercial buildings. ![]() Although the family home was eventually destroyed, it was a three-storey Georgian home in a well-to-do community. On 4 October 1806, Ainsworth's brother, Thomas Gilbert Ainsworth, was born. Ralph Harrison, the Unitarian minister at Manchester Cross Street Chapel. Ainsworth was born on 4 February 1805 in the family house at 21 King Street, Manchester, to Thomas Ainsworth, a prominent Manchester lawyer, and Ann (Harrison) Ainsworth, the daughter of the Rev. ![]()
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