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This Thomas Stanger was great-grandfather of James Stanger, 

 who was born in the year 1743 at Cockermouth, where the family 

 then resided. He went to London in 1763, where he soon entered 

 the house of Mr. Francis Moore in Cheapside, a most liberal and 

 worthy man, distinguished by several ingenious mechanical inven- 

 tions. 



He married a distant relation of the same name, Miss Hannah 

 Stanger, sister of Dr. Stanger of London. This was on the loth 

 October, 1791. 



In 1 77 1 he was admitted into partnership with Mr. Francis 

 Moore, in connexion with Mr. Topham and Mr. James, and he 

 was subsequently for many years the senior partner in that 

 respectable firm. He retired from business in 1823, when his 

 younger son was admitted a partner, as his elder brother had 

 been seven years before. 



In 1810 Mr. Stanger purchased the Lairthwaite estate (then 

 called Dove Cote), and built a mansion, where he generally 

 enjoyed the society of his relations and friends during three or 

 four months in the year. 



A record of the period says of him as follows : — " Died April 

 4th, 1829, James Stanger, Esq., in the eighty-sixth year of his age. 

 Of this estimable man it may be truly said, that as few live to so 

 advanced a period of life as he did, so there are few who have 

 exhibited more unblemished integrity in business and social inter- 

 course, or more consistency of character. His descendants and 

 connexions, near and remote, will long cherish his memory, both 

 on account of the example which he set them of steady, well- 

 regulated, and rightly-principled exertions in his sphere of life, and 

 on account of the uniform kindness which he displayed. 



" The reward of diligence in business was opulence ; yet not 

 that opulence which blazes out hke a meteor, and is sudden, 

 deceitful, and oftentimes really injurious, but a gradual advance in 

 the career of prosperity, honourable to the commercial character, 

 and advantageous to the community, by the opportunity which it 

 afforded him during many years of his later life, of devoting a 

 considerable portion of his time to general usefulness, and likely, 



