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of him by John Adams Acton was placed in the newsroom of 

 the Athenaeum in 1881. It forms one of a group of three, the 

 others representing Richard Cobden and WilHam Langton, who 

 were associated with him in founding the institution. 



Mr. Heywood was one of the Trustees of the Owens College 

 by the terms of John Owens' Will, and was, for some years, 

 the president of Manchester New College. For several years when 

 that institution was seated in Manchester, he maintained at his 

 own expense a lecturer in Civil Engineering in connexion with 

 the secular side of the College, the lectures being delivered in a 

 room in his own house in Mosley Street. He was nominated 

 by the Crown to the Senate of the University of London, and 

 there advocated the regulations allowing women to take degrees 

 in that University. 



His scientific work was mainly statistical, and the list of 

 his communications to the Statistical Society is a long one. He 

 also wrote on the South Lancashire Coal District, and was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, February 7, 1859. He was, 

 with E. W. Binney, H. M. Ormerod and G. W. Ormerod, one of 

 the founders of the Manchester Geological Society, and accom- 

 modated its collections in his house in Mosley Street, situated 

 where the Clarendon Club now stands, until they were transferred 

 to the ground floor of the left wing of the Museum of the 

 Natural History Society in Peter Street. During a long and 

 active life, he held the positions of President of the Statistical 

 Society and of the Economic Section of the British Association, 

 and Chairman of the Royal Historical Society, and was a 

 member of the first Council of the Chetham Society. 



Mr. Heywood married, in 1853, Anne, daughter of John 

 Kennedy of Ardwick and widow of Albert Escher of Ziirich, 

 who died in 1872, and by whom he had one daughter. At the 

 time of his death, Mr. Heywood was the " father " of the Society, 

 the date of his election as a member being April 26, 1833. 



John Ramsbottom, born at Todmorden on September 

 nth, 18 14, owed his success to his natural aptitude and industry, 



