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Mr. Cornish, and on the expiration of his lease at 33, Piccadilly, 

 he in 1890 transferred the whole of his business to St. Ann's 

 Square. Mr. Cornish had a large collection of valuable manu- 

 scripts and rare books, the greater part of which were bequeathed 

 to him by his uncle Mr. Thomas Kerslake, of Bristol, who died 

 in January, 1891. On the issue of his second-hand catalogues of 

 this collection the bibliographical world were to some extent 

 startled by the number of unique and rare items. One of these 

 •catalogues so surprised that astute bibliophile the late Mr. 

 Henry Bradshaw, of Cambridge, that on its receipt he, along 

 with Mr. Francis Jenkinson the present librarian of the University 

 Library, Cambridge, immediately set off for Manchester, and 

 they and the writer spent nearly the whole of two days going 

 over the stock, and as the result of this visit many rare items 

 were sent to Cambridge. The British Museum, the Bodleian 

 Library, Oxford, and the Royal Library, Berlin, were also enriched 

 by purchases from this collection. 



Mr. Cornish died at his residence. Stone House, Alderley 

 Edge, on Tuesday, December 15th, 1903, at the age of 72 years. 

 Personally, he was an exceedingly quiet and retiring man, and 

 took absolutely no part in public affairs. His business and his 

 rural surroundings at home occupied the whole of his bachelor 

 life. He will be much missed by a large circle of literary friends. 



C. H. B. 



Edward Coward was born at Stand on April 26th, 1832. 

 Educated at the Owens College, Manchester, he succeeded, on 

 January ist, 1852, his father in partnership in the firm of 

 " Melland and Coward," at Heaton Mersey and Ardwick. The 

 firm afterwards became merged in the Bleachers' Combine. 

 Mr. Coward was at different times chairman of the Heaton 

 Norris Local Board, the Lancashire Insurance Company until 

 its absorption by the Royal Company of which latter he became 

 a director, and the Ebbw Vale Iron Company. He was also a 

 director of the Great Northern and the West Somerset Railway 

 Companies. He was a man of culture and wide knowledge and 



