SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



Harrison Ainsworth, 1805-82, novelist; 2 ' 1 Thomas 

 Bellot, surgeon, 1 806-5 7 ; Kt William Harper, minor 

 poet, 1806-57 i* 33 William Knight Keeling, painter, 

 1807-86 ; 134 James Stephenson, engraver,! 808-86 ; m 

 William Rathbone Greg, 1809-81 ;* 36 John Bolton 

 Rogerson, poet, 1809-59 ; sw Charles Christian 

 Hennell, author, 1809-50 ; n3 Fred Lingard, musi- 

 cian, 1811 47 ; 239 George Aspull, musician, 1813 

 32 ; I4 Joseph Baxendell, astronomer and meteorolo- 

 gist, 1815-87 ; *" Thomas Bayley Potter, politician, 

 1817-9 8 ; 24J Jhn Cassell, 1817-65, temperance 

 lecturer and publisher ; 243 George John Piccope, 

 181872, an antiquary, whose collections are in the 

 Chetham Library ; Charles Brierley Garside, divine, 

 1 81 8-76 ; f " William Hepworth Dixon, 1821-79;"* 

 Isabella Banks, author of The Manchester Man, and 

 other works, 1821 97; 246 Lydia Ernestine Becker, 

 advocate of women's suffrage, 18 27-90;*^ Charles 

 Beard, Unitarian minister, 1827-88 ; M8 Shakspere 

 Wood, sculptor, 1827-86 ;* 49 James William Whit- 

 taker, painter, 1828-76 ; J5 James Croston, editor of 

 Baines' History of Lancashire, 1830-93 ; 2S1 Constantine 

 Alexander lonides, connoisseur, 18331900 ; IM 

 Henry James Byron, 1834-84, author of 'Our 

 Boys ' and other plays ; MS Walter Bentley Woodbury, 

 1834-85, inventor of the Woodbury-type process ; W4 

 Alfred Barrett, philosophical writer, 1844-81 ; rs 

 John Parsons Earwaker, 1847-95, author of a history 

 of East Cheshire and other antiquarian works; 256 John 

 Hopkinson, optician and engineer, 1849-98. 187 



Of minor matters to be noted there occur the 

 institution of an omnibus in 1825, to run between 

 Market Street and Pendleton ; and the appearance of 

 the cab in 1839. The British Association held its 

 meetings in Manchester in 1842, 1861, and 1887. 



Manchester does not seem to have had any rush- 

 bearing of its own, but the rush carts from neighbour- 

 ing towns and villages were brought to it. IM 



At Hulme Barracks are stationed a battery of the 

 Royal Horse Artillery and an Army Service Corps. 

 There are numerous volunteer corps the 7th L.V. 

 Artillery, Hyde Road ; 3rd L.R. Engineers ; 2nd, 

 4th, and 5th V.B. Manchester Regiment, at Stretford 

 Road, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Ardwick respec- 



tively ; and a cadet battalion ; also a Royal Army 

 Medical Corps (Vol.). 



The press has long been active in Manchester. 

 The following are the principal newspapers now 

 issued : K9 Daily the Manchester Guardian, Liberal, 

 started in 1821 ; Courier, Conservative, 1825 ; Even- 

 ing News, Liberal, 1868 ; Evening Chronicle, and 

 Daily Dispatch ; Weekly City News, 1864 ; also the 

 Sunday Chronicle, 1885 ; Umpire, 1884; and Weekly 

 Times, 1857. A large number of magazines is 

 published. Tit Bits first appeared in Manchester in 

 1 88 1. 160 



The cathedral church of OUR 

 CATHEDRAL LADT, ST. GEORGE, AND ST. 

 DENFS while not challenging a 

 comparison with the great cathedrals of the country, 

 is a fine and dignified building, preserving far more 

 evidence of its architectural history than in the face of 

 the sweeping restorations and rebuildings it has under- 

 gone in modern times would seem possible. A project 

 for building an entirely new cathedral church was 

 mooted, but abandoned, about 1881. The present 

 church is 220 ft. long from the east face of the Lady 

 chapel to the west face of the tower, and 1 1 6 ft. 

 wide across the nave. It has a nave 85 ft. long, 

 with double aisles and north and south porches, an 

 eastern arm 82 ft. long, with north and south aisle* 

 and chapels, an eastern Lady chapel, a chapter-house on 

 the south, and a large west tower with a west porch. 

 From the time of its becoming a collegiate church in 

 1 42 1 its history can be set forth with some com- 

 pleteness, and of work older than this date enough 

 remains, or can be shown to have existed, to establish 

 the fact that before the middle of the 1 4th century 

 the church was practically as long as it is to-day, 

 the western porch always excepted, and had north 

 and south aisles to nave and chancel, together with 

 a Lady chapel and a west tower. The oldest work 

 still standing is to be found in the west arch 

 and lower parts of the walls of the Lady chapel 

 and in the eastern responds of the quire arcades. 

 It dates from c. 1330, and implies a lengthening, 

 or rebuilding, of the chancel of the old parish 

 church at this date, with the addition of an eastern 



231 See Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Pal. Note Bk. 

 ii, 38 ; Procter, Manch. Streets, 269. 

 There is a presentation portrait of him in 

 the Manchester Free Library. 



a 2 Diet. Nat. Biog. * Ibid. 



284 Ibid. 



385 Ibid. 



288 Diet. Nat. Biog. His elder brothers, 

 .Robert Hyde Greg, 1795-1875, econo- 

 mist and antiquary, M.P. for Manchester, 

 1839 ; and Samuel Greg, 1804-76, phil- 

 anthropist, are also noticed in Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 



*7 Diet. Nat. Biog. Ibid. 



*9 Ibid. "o Ibid. 



241 Ibid. ** 2 Ibid. 



Ibid. ; Pal Note Bk. iii, 213. 



244 Gillow, op. cit. ii, 397 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 



244 Diet. Nat. Biog. He was editor of 

 the Athenaeum from 1853 to 1869, and 

 published many historical and geographi- 

 cal works. 



246 Diet. Nat. Biog. ; her maiden name 

 was Varley. 



M7 Ibid. *8 Ibid. 



Ibid. Ibid. 



841 The notice in the Evening Newt 



stated that he was educated at Manchester 

 Grammar School, and traded as a ging- 

 ham manufacturer. He took part in the 

 public life of the district in various ways 

 as a worker in Cotton Famine relief of 

 1862-3, th e City Council (conservative 

 member), and Anglican Church defence ; 

 he also wrote a number of popular works 

 on the history of the district, and in 1873 

 was elected F.S.A. He added accounts 

 of the parochial clergy in his edition of 

 Baines. He died i Sept. 1893, while 

 travelling from Manchester to his home 

 at Prestbury. 



252 Diet. Nat. Biog. * Ibid. 



2s - Ibid. 265 Ibid. 



286 Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Lanes, and Ches. 

 Antiq. Soc. xiii, 143. He edited the Ct. 

 Leet Rec. and Constables' Accts. for the 

 Manchester Corporation. 



2S ? Diet. Nat. Biog. 



258 Alfred Burton, Rushbearing, and the 

 illustration in Procter's Manch. Streets. 



259 A full list is given in the Official 

 Red Book. 



880 The publishing office was transferred 

 to London in 1884. 



261 For a description written about 



1650 see Richard Hollinworth, Mancu- 

 niensis, 46, 47, 119. In Hibbert-Warc't 

 Mancb. Foundations (1830) will be found 

 plans of the church before and after the 

 changes made in 1815, as well as many 

 views of the building. A supplementary 

 volume was issued in 1848, relating to 

 the collegiation. See also Glynne, Lanes. 

 Churches (Chet. Soc.), 115-122 ; Lanes. 

 and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xi, 21 ; xiv, 62. A 

 detailed architectural description by Mr. 

 T. Locke Worthington was issued in 

 1884, but the most authoritative work is 

 the Architectural History by J. S. Crowther, 



In 1649 in consequence of the increase 

 of the congregations, seats were placed 

 ' where the organs lately stood ; ' and 

 eight years later through a benefaction 

 by Richard Hollinworth, who was morning 

 lecturer, a second gallery was built j 

 Manch. Corp. D. 



Bishop Nicholson in 1704 thought the 

 church ' a neat and noble fabric.' 



The ' evidences ' of the town were in 

 1648 ordered to be kept in the room over 

 the church porch ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. 

 iv, 26. 



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