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had no prejudicial influence upon the men engaged in them, 

 but that they lived as long as, if not longer than, those 

 who lived in the same station of life, and who had not been 

 rowing men. Dr. Morgan himself was very fond of all kinds 

 of athletics, and was eminent as an oarsman and as a keen 

 sportsman, but he was especially gifted in his power of 

 literary and oratorical expression. His medical lectures 

 were models of clear and dispassionate discussion of the 

 problems of disease. He was elected a member of the 

 Society on October 29, 1861. A. R. 



Mr. Joseph Stretch Crowther died at Southport, 

 on March 25th, 1893. He came of a Warwickshire family, 

 from the neighbourhood of Coventry. He was educated 

 partly at Cambridge, and at one time thought of taking 

 holy orders. He was also by way of being a musician, being 

 in St. Alban's Church Choir, and being used to play the organ, 

 Asan architecthe was articled toMr.Tattersall, of Manchester. 

 After serving his articles he worked for some time for a firm 

 of mill architects. About 1844 he went into partnership 

 with Mr. J. Bowman, in conjunction with whom he brought 

 out a folio book (1845-50) on " The Churches of the Middle 

 Ages," which still remains one of the standard works on the 

 subject ; indeed, it is one of the finest works that 

 the enthusiasm of the Gothic Revival brought forth. 

 In Manchester and the neighbourhood he was best 

 known as an ecclesiastical architect. His first work of 

 any importance was St. Mary's Church, Moss Lane, 

 Hulme, built by Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, of Tatton, and 

 consecrated by Bishop Prince Lee, in November, 1858. 

 In 1874 he was commissioned to design the church of St. 

 Alban's, Waterloo Road, Cheetham, and at a subsequent 

 period the schools of the same church. In 1875 he designed 

 the important new church of St. Mary's, Crumpsall, the 

 original structure of which had been struck by lightning 



