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years he was a member of the Executive Committee of the 

 Certified Industrial Schools of Manchester, and was specially 

 active in that capacity in the management of the Girls' Industrial 

 School at Sale, He was also active as a member of the Music, 

 Electric Lighting, and Gardens Committee in connection with 

 the highly successful Royal Jubilee Exhibition (1887) in Man; 

 Chester. He gave generous support and assistance in the arrang- 

 ments for the " mammoth" meeting of the British Association 

 in Manchester in the same year, and took a not less cordial and 

 helpful part in promoting the movement for a memorial of Joule 

 in Manchester, which resulted in the fine statue, by Alfred 

 Gilbert, now in the Town Hall. The catholicity of his tastes is 

 further evidenced by the fact that he was an equally well-known 

 figure at Halle's Concerts and at the County Cricket Ground on 

 match days. To his latest years, Mr. Grimshaw continued to 

 have that "open, ingenuous demeanour" which Dr. Schunck 

 observed in him as a youth, and a consistent and peculiarly 

 attractive earnestness of spirit. When struck by the malady 

 which terminated his life, he faced the inevitable with quiet 

 courage and resignation, remarking that he had no reason to 

 complain of the length of years allotted to him ; and he con- 

 tinued almost to the end to visit his club daily, mainly, it 

 appeared, for the purpose of distributing amongst his friends 

 nosegays — which he carried inside his hat — from his own garden. 

 He died at his residence, Stoneleigh, Sale, on March 14, 1898, 

 and was buried at Brooklands. F. J. F. 



Peter Hart was born at Orford, near Warrington, on June 

 6th, 1834. In the village school he received a plain education, 

 and he there came under the notice of Mr. William Beamont, 

 first Mayor of Warrington, a well-known solicitor and antiquarian, 

 and, what was then rare, an enthusiastic educationalist. 



Through this gentleman, Peter Hart, at the age of 10, 

 obtained a situation in a solicitor's office at Tarporley, and he 

 was subsequently employed in Mr. Beamont's own office at 

 Wanington. 



