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APPENDIX B. 



Page 202. The following summary has been sent me by Mr. 

 Frank Nicholson : 



The Manchester Academy was instituted February 22, 1786, 

 on which day a ' very respectable meeting of gentlemen ' unani- 

 mously agreed that* ' an academy should be established in Man- 

 chester, on a plan affording a full and systematic course of educa- 

 tion for Divines, and preparatory instruction for the other learned 

 professions, as well as for civil and commercial life. This insti- 

 tution will be open to young men of every religious denomination, 

 from whom no test or confession of faith will be required.' 



The first session was opened September 14, 1786, by an 

 address from Rev. Thos. Barnes, D.D. (Professor of Hebrew, 

 Metaphysics, Ethics, and Theology). 



Thomas Percival, M.D., F.R.S, was the first chairman. The 

 Rev. Ralph Harrison (elected a member of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, December 5, 1781 l ) was Professor of 

 Classical Literature. The first name on the roll of regular students 

 is James Percival ; further comes Peter Henry, also of Man- 

 chester. In the next year (January 1787) Edward Holme, of 

 Kendal (M.D., President of the Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 1844-47), an d (September 1787) William Henry (M.D., Vice- 

 President 1817 onwards). 



In March 1788, Hector Mortier (of Catteau, near Cambray) 

 was admitted. In a paper by the late J. Moore, Esq., F.L.S., in 

 Harland's 'Collectanea' ('Chatham Society's Publications/ vol. 

 Ixxii.) he is identified with Marshal Mortier, Due de Treviso, 



1 See List, p. 33. 



