Contents. xvii 



of thfl soil — The Climate not congenial to delicate constitntioas — 

 Eainfall — Number of days on which rain fell — Weight of rain annually 

 deposited on the area of the district — Mean temperature of Eossendale 

 Its Agrionlture — Dairy Farming — Epidemic diseases rare in Eossen- 

 dale— Births and Deaths for the years 1891-2, . Pp. 231-235 



BOOK SEVENTH. 



CHAPTER I. 



Local worthies — John Lord, schoolmaster— Traitsof his character — Bhyming 

 Calendar— Rev. John Butterworth — His religions views — Author of a 

 Concordance to the Holy Scriptures — His father Henry Butterworth, 

 and brothers — James Hargreavcs, author of the " Life of John Hirst " — 

 Incidents in his early youth — His first essay at preaching — Joins the 

 Baptist Society at Bacnp — Removes to Bolton, and afterwards to Ogden 

 — Opens a Boardiug-School — Accepts a Call to Wild Street Chapel, 

 London — Finally settles at Waltham Abbey Cross — He is appointed 

 Secretary of the Peace Society — His labours in connection therewith — 

 List of his Published Works — Lawrence Heyworth — His birth and 

 parentage — Education — Commences business — His success in Portugal 

 —Embarks for South America — Establishes Commission houses there — 

 Resists Sir James Chamberlain in his attempts to impose a tax upon 

 English goods imported into Rio de Janeiro — Founds an Establishment 

 at Hamburgh — Retires from business, and invests his Capital in 

 Railways — Begins to take an active part in Politics — His connection 

 with the Anti-Corn Law League — Is returned to Parliament for the 

 borough of Derby — His Political views — Resigns his seat in Parlia- 

 ment — His Literary Labours — John Crabtree, II.D. — Birthplace — 

 Early Education — Studies in Edinburgh and Dublin for the Medical 

 Profession — Takes the degree of M.D. — Obtains his disploma — Begins 

 to practise — Estimate of his abilities — His character — Decease — 

 Sketch of the life of Robert Muun — John Aitken — Henry Cunliffe — 

 William Hoyle, . . . . .Pp. 236-257 



