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it is hoped, to be permanently beneficial to those whose interests 

 it promoted along with his own. 



" Modest and unassuming, sincere and uniform, he lost no 

 friends except by death ; and it was his happiness to gain many 

 friends as life proceeded. He was a firm Dissenter from principle, 

 but without the least bigotry, and a warm friend of general liberty, 

 without any of the asperity of a party man. A kind Providence 

 blessed him with a very considerable portion of strength and 

 vigour, even beyond the period of four-score ; and just when life, 

 owing to increasing infirmities, was beginning to be nothing but 

 labour and sorrow, God called him by an easy transition to the 

 reward of the good and faithful servant." 



There are many still living who remember him, as I do, coming 

 to Lairthvvaite every summer. His venerable appearance in his 

 carriage, driven by old Tom Bowe, his venerable-looking coach 

 man, was striking. He always attended divine service in the 

 parish church, where he had a pew. He gave off land from Dove 

 Cote field to widen the church lane, which is now the side-road 

 for foot passengers. 



On his decease his eldest son, Mr. James Stanger, came into 

 possession of the property, which he enlarged by building a wing, 

 in which he had an excellent organ built by Hill of London. 



The memory of this good man is still fresh in the minds ot 

 many. He was a devoted laymen and a staunch adherent of the 

 Reformed Church of England. As superintendent of the Cros- 

 thwaite Sunday school, he built the present school at High Hill 

 expressly lor that purpose, as will be seen by the inscription on 

 the porch, " Crosthwaite Sunday School, 1833," the school having 

 been previously carried on for a short time in the church, and 

 afterwards in the National school close by, formerly the Quakers' 

 meeting house. 



Of his labours as a layman I must not now speak, for they 

 would take a paper of considerable length to give even a sketch of 

 them. His Sunday evening services and lectures in the school 

 room, conducted there for sixteen years, were much appreciated, 

 and fully attended, not only by the parishioners, but by many of 



