Faraday himself became apprenticed to a bookbinder.
Though his poetical tastes were early developed, his father apprenticed him to a jeweller.
In 1724 he was removed from this school and taken into the house of his uncle Bernard, by whom he was shortly afterwards apprenticed to a notary.
Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.
Here, at the age of 13, he was apprenticed to a saddler.