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Colonel Commandant of the St. Helens Rifles 

 Commodore of the Iloyal Mersey Yacht 

 Club The good influence of resident manu- 

 fa< Hirers on the municipal and social life of 

 a town Prosperity attained by sixty years of 

 plodding, patient enterprise The founder of 

 the firm, Josias Christopher Gamble, born at 

 Enniskillen, 1776 Trained for the Presby- 

 terian ministry Educated and took his M.A. 

 at Glasgow First charge at Enniskillen, then 

 called to Belfast Theological students studied 

 medicine Gamble attended Dr. Cleghorn's 

 chemical lectures at Glasgow University 

 Gamble's scientific tastes and profitable 

 application of his knowledge in making 

 chlorine solution for bleaching the linen 

 manufactured by the hand-loom weavers 

 Retires from the ministry, and chooses the 

 occupation of a manufacturing chemist 

 Tennant's patent method for making bleaching 

 powder, 1809 Gamble's primitive plant in 

 County Monaghan Removal of works to 

 Dublin First chemist in the United Kingdom 

 to apply the French plan of working vitriol 

 chambers Manufactured sulphuric acid, 

 bleaching powder, alum and Glauber's salts- 

 Heavy duties on brimstone and salt Gamble's 

 marriage to Hannah Gower the family Salt 

 tax repealed, 1823 James Muspniit mmos to 

 England from Dublin 1822, Gamble, 1828 A 

 two years' j.;n t ncr-lii p ;tt St.Helens Muspuiit 

 leaves St. Melons and goes to Newton- 

 Extension of the St. Helens works In 



