A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The following is a list of the rectors : — 

 I 



1699 Robert Stythe, B.A/™ 

 1 7 14-17 vacant, owing to a dispute."^ 

 1 71 7 Thomas Bell, M. A/" 

 John Stanley, D.D.'»« 

 Robert Brereton 

 George Hodson, M.A."' 

 Samuel Renshaw, M.A."" 

 Jonathan Brooks, M.A."' 



1726 

 1750 

 1784 



1794 

 1829 



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1699 William Atherton, B.A."' 



1 706 Henry Richmond, B.A.''^ 



1 72 1 Thomas Baldwin, M.A."* 



1753 Henry Wolstenholme, M.A."' 



1772 Thomas Maddock, M. A."' 



1783 Thomas Dannett '" 



1796 Robert Hankinson Roughsedge, M.A."' 



1829 Augustus Campbell, M.A. (sole rector, 

 1855)"" 



1870 Alexander Stewart, M.A.™ 



1 904 John Augustine Kempthorne, M.A.™' 



St. George's Church, for which an Act of Parlia- 

 ment was obtained in 1715,™ was begun in 1726 on 

 the site of the castle ; it was completed in 1734. ' It 

 had originally an elegant terrace, supported by rustic 

 arches, on one side ; these arches the frequenters of Red 

 Cross market used to occupy.' *" The church was re- 

 built piecemeal between 18 19 and 1825, and its new 

 spire was reduced in height in 1 8 3 3 ; in its time it was 

 regarded as ' one of the handsomest in the kingdom.' 

 It was the property of the corporation and main- 

 tained by them, the mayor and the judges of assize at 

 one time attending it. On Mr. Charles Mozley, who 

 was a Jew, being elected mayor in 1863, the incum- 

 bent preached a sermon denouncing the choice, and 

 from that time the mayor and corporation ceased to 

 attend St. George's. The building having long failed 



to attract a congregation was closed in 1897 and then 

 demolished, the site being acquired by the corpora- 

 tion."" 



St. Thomas's, Park Lane, was built in 1750 under 

 the provisions of an Act of Parliament.""' ' The 

 land was given by Mr. John Skill, who, however, 

 afterwards charged three times the value of the ground 

 for the churchyard when it was required.' "°* A very 

 tall and slender spire was a feature of the exterior ; 

 after various accidents it was taken down in 1822, 

 and the present miniature dome replaced it. A large 

 part of the churchyard was acquired by the corpora- 

 tion about 1885 for a new thoroughfare."" 



St. Paul's, one of the corporation churches, was 

 begun in 1763 in accordance with an Act obtained 

 the previous year,™" and opened in 1769. Its chief 



786 Educated at Brasenose College, Ox- 

 ford ; B.A. 1680 ; ordained deacon and 

 priest by the Bishop of Chester in 1680 

 and 1682 ; master of the Free School at 

 Liverpool, 1684. Held the rectory of 

 Garstang for twelve monthi (1697-8), 

 apparently as a * warming pan,* He is 

 regarded as co-founder, with Bryan Blun- 

 dell, of the Blue-coat School, Liverpool. 

 He died in Dec. 1713. SeeH. Fishwick, 

 Garstang (Chet. Soc), 185. 



786a picton, Munic. Rec. ii, 68. 



787 Educated at Pembroke College, Ox- 

 ford ; M.A. 1698 ; Foster, Alumni. 



788 Son of Sir Edward Stanley of Bicker- 

 BtafFe ; Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, 

 Cambridge ; rector of Winwick 1740 to 

 1742, and 1764 to 178 1 i also rector of 

 Bury 1743 to 1778. 



789 Son of the Rev. George Hodson, 

 curate of West Kirby ; educated at Brase- 

 nose College, Oxford ; M.A. 1763 ; died 

 14 Apr, 1794; Foster, Alumni i Man- 

 chester School Reg. i, 53. 



7^0 Son of John Renshaw of Liverpool ; 

 educated at Brasenose College, Oxford ; 

 M.A, 1775 ; died 19 Oct, 1829, nine 

 days after the other rector, Mr, Rough- 

 sedge ; Foster, Alumni, He published a 

 volume of sermons in 1792. 



791 He belonged to a mercantile family 

 in Liverpool, being son of Joseph Brooks, 

 Everton. He was educated at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge ; M.A. 1802 ; Arch- 

 deacon of Liverpool, 1848. He died 29 

 Sept. 1855. 'Few men have enjoyed in 

 their day and generation more general 

 respect than fell to the lot of Archdeacon 

 Brooks, Of a dignified and noble pre- 

 sence, his manners were genial, courteous, 

 and, with perfect truth it may be said, 

 those of a gentleman. When presiding 

 at vestry meetings in the stormy times of 

 contested Church rates, when occasionally 

 very strong language was indulged in, a 



quiet, pleasant remark from the '* old rec- 

 tor" would calm the troubled waters and 

 frequently cause all parties to laugh at 

 their own violence, . . . His great popu- 

 larity led to the erection of a memorial 

 statue in St. George's Hall, by B. Spence* ; 

 Picton's Liverpool, ii, 136, 367, 349, 



793 Ordained deacon and priest by the 

 Bishop of Chester in 1678 and 1679 rc- 

 pectively. Ancestor of the Athertons of 

 Walton. 



A William Atherton of Lancashire 

 entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 

 in 1674, and graduated as B.A. in 1677 ; 

 information of Mr. J. B. Peace, bursar of 

 the college. 



798 Son'of Sylvester Richmond, a Liver- 

 pool physician ; educated at Brasenose 

 College, Oxford; B.A. 1695. He was 

 rector of Garstang from 1698 till 171 2 ; 

 he was buried in St. Nicholas' Church ; 

 see Fishwick, Garstang, 186. 



'9< Son of John Baldwin, Alderman of 

 Wigan ; educated at Jesus College, Cam- 

 bridge ; M.A. 1709. In 1748 he pur- 

 chased the advowsons of North Meols and 

 Leyland ; his son John became rector of 

 the former parish, and himself (1748-52) 

 and his son Thomas were successively 

 vicars of Leyland. He was a councillor of 

 Liverpool from 1733 to 1748, See 

 Farrer, North Meols, 84 ; Baines, Lanes. 

 (ed, Croston), iv, 166. 



795 Author of two volumes of sermons, 



796 Educated at Brasenose College, Ox- 

 ford ; B.A, 1735 ; Foster, Alumni. For 

 his sons see Manchester School Reg. (Chet. 

 Soc), ii, 23. See Gilbert Wakefield's 

 Memoirs. 



797 Chosen by a majority of the mayor 

 and council. 



798 Son of Edward Roughsedge of Liver- 

 pool ; educated at Brasenose College, Ox- 

 ford ; M.A. 1771. He died 10 Oct. 

 1829 ; Foster, Alumni. 



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799 Also vicar of Childwall, 1824- 

 70. 



s™ Educated at Clare College, Cam- 

 bridge ; M.A. 1852. Vicar of Cogges, 

 Oxfordshire, 1868-70 ; Hon. Canon of 

 Liverpool, 1880. 



891 Educated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge ; M.A. 1890. Vicar of St. Mary's, 

 Rochdale, 1895 ; of St. Thomas's, Sun- 

 derland, 1900 ; Rector of Gateshead, 

 1901 ; Hon. Canon of Liverpool, 1905. 



8™ I Geo. I, cap. 21. 



898 Stranger in Liverpool, From this 

 guide, of which there were many editions, 

 much of the information in the text is 

 derived. 



At one end of the * terrace * was the 

 office of the clerk of the market ; at the 

 other that of the night watch. There was 

 a vault beneath the church for interments. 

 The interior fittings were good. The east 

 window had a picture of the Crucifixion, 

 inserted in 1832. There were originally 

 two ministers, the chaplain and the 

 lecturer, and the appointment was usually 

 a stepping-stone to the rectory ; D. 

 Thorn in Trans. Hist. Soc. iv, 161. This 

 essay on the changes and migrations of 

 churches was continued in vol. v, and 

 illustrated with views of the older build- 

 ings. 



89* An effort was made to retain the 

 spire. There is an account of this church 

 and St. John's by Mr. Henry Peet in 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xv, 27-44. 



895 21 Geo, II, cap. 24. 



896 Stranger in Liverpool. 



897 The Bishop of Liverpool's com- 

 mission in 1902 recommended that the 

 incumbency be extinguished at the next 

 vacancy, the district to be annexed to St. 

 Michael's, Pitt Street, 



898 2 Geo. Ill, cap. 68 ; the same Act 

 authorized St. John's Church. There were 

 formerly two incumbents at St. Paul's. 



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