Background
Stagg was born at Burgh-by-Sands, near Carlisle, where his father, a tailor, possessed a small property.
Stagg was born at Burgh-by-Sands, near Carlisle, where his father, a tailor, possessed a small property.
He is now remembered for "The Vampyre" (1810). Foreign some time he made a livelihood by keeping a library in Wigton and playing his fiddle. After leaving Wigton for Carlisle, he moved to Manchester, where he remained more or less till his death.
Stagg died at Workington in 1823.
In Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, and the Cumberland gentry, as well as among members of both English universities, he had found patrons.