Thomas Hampton was born at Blaisdon in Gloucestershire (baptised March 1844), and probably worked on the canals for a while. By 1870 he was living in Hereford, being married there that year. He died in 1896, still resident at Bath St. Hereford. He left a manuscript containing tunes, which is now in the possession of his great-great granddaughter, Becky Dellow, who is researching both TH and the tunes. Although the manuscript was compiled in Hereford, Becky believes some of the tunes were remembered from TH’s childhood in Gloucestershire.

Runns Hornpipe is similar to Harlequin’s Hornpipe in Chris Beaumont’s manuscript. It was popularised in 1806–07 in the pantomime Harlequin and Mother Goose or The Golden Egg, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 29 December, and many times repeated in the new year. It starred the famous clown Joseph Grimaldi and was written by Thomas Dibdin. The tune was published in 1816 in Wilson’s Companion To The Ball Room and between 1810-22 in Blackman’s A Selection of the most favorite Hornpipes for the Violin.
Information from Paul Burgess, Becky Dellow and Wikipedia.

In the linked abc file this is tune number X:12