Description: Robert Millhouse (1788-1839) was a stocking maker and poet. He was the second child in a family of ten, sent to work at six, and placed in a stocking frame at ten, with ill health and poverty and only a Sunday School education. He joined the Notts Militia at 22 and went to Ireland, to return four years later. He produced various single poems, then a collection of sonnets and in 1826 'The Song of the Patriot, Sonnets and Songs', which was well received. Other works followed such as 'Sherwood Forest' and 'The Destinies of Man'. Millhouse died at 32, Walker Street on Saturday 13th April, 1839. The monument in the general cemetery (shown here) carries an inscription by fellow poet Spencer Hall of some extravagance. The epitaph reads 'Then Trent shall flow no more, and blossoms fail On Sherwood's plains to scent the springtide gale; When the lark's lay shall lack its thrilling charm, And Song forget the Briton's soul to warm; When love o'er youthful hearts hath lost its sway, Thy fame, O Bard ! will pass-but not till then away'. (information from 'Men of Nottingham & Nottinghamshire', by R Mellors)