the late Mr. Henry. 209 
teem and confidence in the offer of a future 
partnership. To have accepted this, it would 
have been necessary that he should have qua- 
lified himself to matriculate, which would 
have required the completion of a residence 
of seven years. But other views in life, which 
were inconsistent with so longa season of ex- 
pectation, induced him to decline the propo- 
sal; and in the year 1759, he settled at 
Knutsford, where he soon afterwards mar- 
vied. After remaining five years at this place, 
he embraced the opportunity of succeeding to 
the business of a respectable apothecary in 
Manchester; where he continued, for nearly 
half a century, to be employed in medical at- 
tendance, for the most part on the more 
opulent inhabitants of the town and neigh- 
bourhood. 
Soon after Mr. Henry’s settlement in Man- 
chester, the late Dr. Percival removed to the 
same town from Warrington. That eminent 
physician was early inspired with the same ar- 
dent zeal for the cultivation of professional 
and general knowledge, which afterwards so 
much distinguished him. Between Dr. Per- 
cival and the subject of this memoir, conge- 
niality of taste and pursuits led to a frequent 
intercourse ; and the moral qualities of both 
cemented their connection into a friendship 
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