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on whose staff I was placed. The result was, 

 that between the years 1874 and 1880 inclusive I 

 delivered in sixty-one towns a hundred and fifty- 

 eight lectures on various branches of the sciences 

 that came within my range, and wholly apart from 

 my lectures at the Owens College. My connection 

 with the Gilchrist Trust continued until 1890, and 

 during the latter ten years the number of lectures 

 given was at least equal to that of the earlier ones. 



During the Association Meeting at Bradford I was 

 the guest of Mr. Henry, now Sir Henry Mitchell, 

 and head of the Bradford branch of the large firm 

 of A. and S. Henry & Co. On arriving at his house 

 in Manningham I was received by Sir Henry's 

 widowed sister, who for many years had super- 

 intended his domestic establishment. My friend, 

 Mr. Pengelly, and the popular Wesleyan preacher, 

 Morley Puncheon, were fellow guests. Before the 

 week ended I was casually introduced to a daughter 

 of my hostess. During Easter week of the following 

 year I again visited Sir Henry, and again met Miss 

 Heaton, the result of which meeting was our engage- 

 ment and marriage in the following year. 



During the autumn of 1874 we were staying at 

 the " Devonshire Arms," Bolton, in Wharfedale, 

 when we found in the same hotel a gentleman already 

 well known to me through his architectural writings, 

 but whom I had never previously met. This was 

 the Reverend Mackenzie Walcott, Precentor of 

 Chichester Cathedral, and the eminent author of so 



