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authorising the same will be submitted at the annual 

 meeting. 



The Council is sorry to report to the members that 

 one of the honorary secretaries, Mr. F. J. Faraday, who has 

 also filled the office of editor of the Memoirs and Proceedings,, 

 is unable, from the pressure of other engagements, to 

 continue to discharge the obligations of these positions.. 



It is with the greatest regret that the Council informs, 

 the Society that, owing to the increased demands upon 

 his time, Mr. Charles Bailey finds it impossible to continue 

 to discharge the duties of Treasurer to the Society. For 

 11 years as Librarian, and for 19 as Treasurer, Mr. Bailey 

 has for the last 30 years exerted himself in the interests 

 of the Society in a manner which has few, if any, parallels, 

 in the past. 



John Lawson Kennedy was the son of John 

 Kennedy, one of a band of Scottish young men who 

 came South towards the close of the eighteenth century.. 

 Mr. John Kennedy joined in partnership with the 

 McConnels, of Ancoats, who became famous as spinners 

 of fine counts of cotton yarn. His only son was born 

 December, 1814, at Medlock Hall, a mansion near to 

 Holt Town, which was pleasantly situated, and com- 

 manded a fine view of the valley of the Medlock. He 

 was educated at the school kept by the Rev. William 

 Johns, and was one of a number of boys — like the 

 Potters — who subsequently made their mark in their 

 native town. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and 

 took his degree, and subsequently entered at the Middle 

 Temple, and was called to the Bar in 1839, but did not 

 practise. Towards the middle of the century he began 

 business as a calico printer in partnership with Mr. John 

 Graham (whose brother, Thomas, wrote a valuable book on 

 chemistry, published by Bailliere) at Hartshead, he finding 



