User:Bart Goldsmith/sandbox

Goldsmith, Bartholomew (b. 22 Feb 1813 - d. 18 Oct 1886) Bartholomew Goldsmith was born in Devon in 1813, to a Stableboy father and a Chambermaid mother. Most of his early life is undocumented, but it is known that he excelled at school from a young age. This educational prowess secured him a scholarship at the prestigious Assumpta Gash Middle School in Bristol. After four years of intense tutelage under Assumpta's supervision, he was awarded the Gash Achievement Award for scholarly advancement. It was after this that he came to the attention of his local MP, Sir Christopher Winkleworth. Winkleworth had been entrusted with modernising the assimilation of information regarding roads, topography and population of the South West of England. This was an immense undertaking and required intricate local knowledge of the local area, people and their customs. It is estimated that Goldsmith assumed a position with