William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous monty python yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at...William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous monty python yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work.