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In 1858 he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of 

 Chester, and licensed to the curacy of Scarisbrick, then 

 part of the parish of Ormskirk (the Vicar of which was 

 the Rev. Joseph Bush), at a stipend of 60 a year. The 

 landowner of Scarisbrick was a Roman Catholic, and 

 would not allow a clergyman of the Church of England 

 to live on his estate, so that my father had to lodge in 

 Southport, and, good walker though he was, the distance 

 of his work from his lodging was very irksome to him. 

 He was also not wholly in sympathy with the attitude of 

 most of the local clergy towards the vexed questions of 

 the day, and he used afterwards to refer with some amuse- 

 ment to their denunciations of the views of Darwin, then 

 just published. With these views he was (apart from 

 certain details) in entire sympathy, but his attempts to 

 defend them at meetings of those who denounced with- 

 out reading them were not well received. While at 

 Southport he found time to carry on his pursuit of 

 Natural History, and in 1860 published in the Zoologist 

 a list of Southport Spiders, c with remarks on uniformity 

 of use and meaning of words in Natural History'. 

 (Such questions of method had always a great interest 

 for him, and, in addition to several published discussions, 

 he frequently cleared up his own mind upon them by 

 writing essays dealing with them, several of which still 

 survive in manuscript.) 



He was ordained Priest in 185^, and in 1860 resigned 

 the curacy of Scarisbrick to take that of Bloxworth and 



