tionately called, was educated in Bristol aud at the Uuiversit}^ 

 of Edinbur^-li ; he afterwards studied in a theological institu- 

 tion in the North of England, aud combined in a high degree 

 the characteristic virtues of his family. 



He entered the ministry, preaching first at Stand near Man- 

 chester, and subsequently at Warrington. Ministerial labor, 

 as ordinarily understood was really but a small part of his 

 work. "Universally respected for his ability and general 

 character, he was a leader of the j^eople in everything that Avas 

 good, and his philanthropy knew no bounds." 



He was particularly active in various eftbrts and ingenious 

 in devising methods for the education and moral elevation of 

 the humbler classes, and established a printing pjSfice at War- 

 rington which he called the " Oberlin Press," solely for the 

 purpose of teaching and giving emplo^^ment to "the youthful 

 poor." From this office, incidental to furnishing instruction 

 and labor, he sent forth pamphlets and handbills denouncing 

 vice and crime ; publishing broadcast, sanitary rules and di- 

 rections for the prevention of pestilential diseases ; proclama- 

 tions of the advantages of ventilation, cleanliness and temper- 

 ance; culinary instructions, in bread-making and the healthful 

 preparation of simple articles of food ; and in other ways with 

 a most righteous zeal, he waged a vigorous and jjersistent war- 

 fare with pen, printing ink and paper, on ignorance and the 

 evils which follow in its train. He was also vehement in his 

 denunciation of slavery ; and during the great civil war in 

 America, when many of the cotton mills in England were 

 closed through a lack of the raw material, and the operatives 

 thrown out of work, — -unemployed and therefore restless under 

 the pressure of poverty, with a dreary prosjject of "no work 

 and no bread," — he w^as active alike in devising ways and 

 means by which they could maintain themselves in this emer- 

 gency — enlightening them by speeches and handbills on the 

 j)oiuts involved in the contest — thus enlisting their sympathy 

 in behalf of the better cause. 



With a taste for Natural History, he commenced the study 

 of the Mollusca, at first as a recreation. " He brought to it a 

 mind well trained in those scientific habits which prevented 

 him from becoming the mere species-monger," and became 

 " one of the most scientific conchologists of our time." 



Circumstances placed within his reach a large collection of 



