1. byrom, john poet and stenographer, born near Manchester; invented a system of shorthand, now superseded, and which he had the soleright of teaching for 21 years; contributed as "John Shadow" to the Spectator; author of the pastoral, "My Time, O ye Muses, was Happily Spent"; his poetry satirical and genial (1692-1763).
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