58 AUTOBIOGRAPHY [CHAP. vm. 



lent papers on medical subjects, and his monograph on 

 " British Social Wasps " brought him the fellowship of the 

 Royal Society. 



" The second brother, Wareing, and the fourth, Henry, 

 started as solicitors in Manchester. Wareing left Man- 

 chester for Devonshire, living first at Chagford, on the 

 borders of Dartmoor, and afterwards at Teignmouth. 

 Geology was his favourite study. He compiled the Index 

 for the publications of the Geological Society, of which he 

 was a fellow, and he made many contributions to its 

 journal. 



" Henry Mere Ormerod continued to practise as a solicitor 

 in Manchester till his death in 1898. He also managed his 

 father's Lancashire estates, and to him the other members 

 of his family turned for legal and for practical advice. He 

 was a churchwarden of the Collegiate Church, now the 

 Cathedral, trustee of various important charities, active in 

 all good movements, proud to be of Lancashire origin and 

 a Manchester man. He possessed extensive knowledge and 

 most varied interests. His collections of books, china, and 

 prints were remarkable ; and in such subjects as archaeology, 

 genealogy, architecture, geology, and certain branches of 

 natural history he was an expert. It was he who presented 

 to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in accordance with the 

 wishes of his father, the author's copy of the ' History of 

 Cheshire.' "] 



EXTRACT FROM ORMEROD'S "HISTORY OF CHESHIRE," VOL. in. PAGE 

 450 (IST EDITION), RELATIVE TO THE ORIGINAL OF PL. xvni. OPPOSITE. 



"P. 238, Nantwich Hospital. The author has in his possession a 

 singularly curious oak chest which he purchased at Erdswick Hall. It 

 had been bought by the tenant at a sale at Hulgreve Hall (an estate of 

 the Astons, who participated in the division of the religious spoil at the 

 Reformation), and it was traditionally said to have come from this 

 hospital. It appears to have been one of the chests used to keep 

 vestments and chalices, &c., in, and is about two feet broad, by five in 

 length, and two feet nine inches in height ; at each end are two 

 compartments, and in front five, all of which except the central one are 

 sumptuously carved in imitation of rich Gothic windows with canopies, 

 crockets, finials, buttresses, and shrine work. The centre represents 

 the coronation of Henry VI., and the single rose occurs over the fleur- 

 de-lis in the ornaments. The chest is figured in Plate 44 of 'Specimens 

 of Gothic Architecture in England,' by Augustus Pugin, 1822 ; and 

 a description is given at page 27. 



"A chest, of a description precisely corresponding with it, was 

 recently offered for sale at Liverpool, with the Brereton painted glass, 

 and described as having been formerly the church chest at Ashton- 

 under-Lyne." 



