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to the See in 1870, was appointed Archdeacon in succession to 

 Dr. Durnford. Bishop Fraser's regard for him was further shown 

 by his offering the Archdeacon, in 1882, a residentiary canonry 

 in the Cathedral, which was accepted. He did not hold the 

 office long, however, for the death of Canon Gibson, in 1884, 

 left him no alternative but to give up Birch Rectory and take the 

 rectory of St. Matthew's, Campfield, or to resign his canonry. His 

 strong family associations with Birch inclined him to the latter 

 course, and six years later (in 1890) he also resigned the arch- 

 deaconry, being of the opinion that the duties of the office 

 required a younger man. 



Archdeacon Anson was a governor of the Hulme Trust 

 Estates, a feoffee of Chetham Hospital and Library, and was also 

 interested in the St. Mary's Home, Rusholme (which he founded), 

 in the Manchester Southern Hospital, and in St. Mary's Hos- 

 pital. He married, in 1848, Augusta Agnes, eldest daughter of 

 Dr. Hook, who survives him. He was elected a member of this 

 Society on January 22, 1861, and was always interested in its 

 proceedings, though of late years he was seldom seen at the 

 meetings. His death took place at Winchester on February 8, 

 1898, the remains being brought to Manchester and interred in 

 Birch churchyard. 



Thomas Ashton, LL.D., who died at his residence, Ford 

 Bank, Didsbury, on January 21st last, was elected a member of 

 the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, August 

 nth, 1837. Mr. Ashton was well-read in many subjects, and 

 in full sympathy with both literary and scientific men. An inte- 

 rest in philosophical as well as in historical studies had remained 

 to him, perhaps from his Heidelberg days ; and the pleasure 

 which he took in the conversation of the late Professor Huxley, 

 when his guest at Ford Bank, in 1870, is vividly remembered by 

 those who saw them together. But his field of action lay else- 

 where than in the world of letters and science, though he was 

 brought into close contact and connection with it through his 

 .services to higher education. Of these the most conspicuous 



