248 History of the 



After sitting through two Parliaments, extending over a period 

 of about nine years, as one of the representatives for the Borough 

 of Derby, Mr. Heyworth experienced, at the age of threescore 

 years and ten, something of the coming infirmities of advancing 

 years, and especially that of a defective hearing. He, therefore, 

 in 1857, relinquished his seat in the House of Commons ; but in 

 his retirement he never ceased to take an active part in promoting 

 the movements agitated for Political, Social, Commercial, and 

 Moral Reform. Mr. Heyworth was the author of a multitude of 

 pamphlets, and published letters on the above and kindred subjects ; 

 and his views are enunciated at length in his work entitled, " The 

 Origin, Mission, and Destiny of Man." He died on the 19th 

 April, 1872, at the ripe age of 86 years. 



John Crabtree, M.D., was born at Meanwood, Newchurch, 

 September 19th, 1804. When a youth he was sent to a school at 



Gawsworth, taught by his uncle, the Rev. Crabtree; and 



afterwards to Dronfield Academy in Derbyshire, kept by Mr. 

 Butterman, where he remained for the space of four years and a 

 half. In 1822, at the age of eighteen, he was apprenticed to Mr. 

 Wolfenden, surgeon, of Congleton, and served for a period of five 

 years. By the assistance of his elder brother, James Crabtree, who, as 

 a merchant in South America, (being a junior partner with the Hey- 

 worths,) had amassed a considerable fortune, he was enabled to go 

 through a course of studies at the Colleges of Edinburgh and 

 Dubhn respectively ; at the former of which, in the year 1829, he 

 took the degree of M.D. On the 12th of June in the same year he 

 obtained his Surgeon's diploma at the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 London, and on the 18th of June his Apothecary's diploma at the 

 Apothecaries' Hall. Unassuming in manners, he was yet gifted 

 •with abilities which would have graced the highest offices of his 

 profession. An accident which befell him in his youth brought on 

 a chest affection, which clung to him during the remainder of his 

 life, and probably influenced him in deciding to settle in the 

 locality of his birth. He began practice at Fearns, near New- 

 church, in 1829, when twenty-five years of age, and continued to 



