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in the immortality of their names. But the greatness of a 

 nation is not exckisively clue to the world-wide reputation 

 of its greatest sons, any more than the grandeur of a 

 mountain mass is due exclusively to its loftiest peaks. 

 Much must be recognised as the fruits of the efforts of 

 inconspicuous labourers, without whom the work of the 

 greatest would be impossible ; the honorary officials who 

 seek no fame, but devote their energies to the details of 

 intellectual and progressive movements from simple love of 

 the work, and find their happiness in the mere satisfaction 

 of their refined impulses and tastes, are entitled to some 

 gratitude from posterity. And such men were Thomas 

 Taylor of Liverpool, and his friend Leigh Philips of 

 Manchester. 



[Since writing the above, I discovered, in Gore s Liverpool Advertiser o'i 

 Oct. 6th, 1803, the following obituary notice: "Died, on Wednesday the 

 28th ult., in the 43rd year of his age, Mr. Thomas Taylor, Merchant, of 

 this town. He had gone to Buxton with a view to meet some of his nearest 

 relations, and there fell an untimely victim to that cruel malady, the Typhus 

 Fever. Severely as his loss will be felt by his own immediate relations and 

 intimate friends, who were most accustomed to the endearments of his 

 manners, the accomplishments of his mind, and the rectitude of his heart, 

 the inhabitants of Liverpool, in general, have much cause to deplore the 

 too early decease of a man, who, for many years, successfully employed his 

 excellent abilities to promote both the substantial benefit of the public, and 

 those scientific and refined pleasures which were so congenial to his own 

 elegant taste. It may truly be said, that of the many useful and ornamental 

 public institutions which our town can boast, there is scarcely one which is 

 not considerably indebted to his solid judgement, and persevering exertions."] 



Note : For facts relating to the Earle family I am 

 indebted to Mr. T. A. Earle, of Hartford, Cheshire, who 

 kindly sent me his " Earle of Allerton Tower " (privately 

 printed in 1889), and placed other sources of information 

 at my disposal. — W. B. F. 



