SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



Harrison Ainsworth, 1805-82, novelist;*" Thomas 

 Bellot, surgeon, 1806-57 ;"' William Harper, minor 

 poet, 1806-57 i'^ William Knight Keeling, painter, 

 1807-86 ;'" James Stephenson, engraver,! 808-86;"' 

 William Rathbone Greg, 1809-81 ;"= John Bolton 

 Rogerson, poet, 1809-59;"" Charles Christian 

 Hennell, author, 1809-50 ;'" Fred Lingard, musi- 

 cian, 1811-47;'^' George AspuU, musician, 18 13- 

 32 ; "" Joseph Baxendell, astronomer and meteorolo- 

 gist, 1815-87;-" Thomas Bayley Potter, politician, 

 1817-98;"' John Cassell, 1817-65, temperance 

 lecturer and publisher ; '" George John Piccope, 

 1818-72, an antiquary, virhose collections are in the 

 Chetham Library ; Charles Brierley Garside, divine, 

 1818-76 ;'" William Hepworth Dixon, 1821-79;'" 

 Isabella Banks, author of Tie Manchester Man, and 

 other works, 1821-97;'" Lydia Ernestine Becker, 

 advocate of women's suffrage, 1827-90;'" Charles 

 Beard, Unitarian minister, 1827-88 ;'*' Shakspere 

 Wood, sculptor, 1827-86;'" James William Whit- 

 taker, painter, 1828-76 ;"" James Croston, editor of 

 Baines' History of Lancashire, 1830-93 ;"' Constantine 

 Alexander lonides, connoisseur, 1833-1900;"' 

 Henry James Byron, 1 834.-84, author of 'Our 

 Boys ' and other plays ; "' Walter Bentley Woodbury, 

 1834-85, inventor of the Woodbury-type process;'" 

 Alfred Barrett, philosophical writer, 1844-81 ;'^' 

 John Parsons Earwaker, 1847—95, author of a history 

 oi East Cheshire and other antiquarian works ;"° John 

 Hopkinson, optician and engineer, 1849-98.'" 



Of minor matters to be noted there occur the 

 institution of an omnibus in 1825, to run between 

 Market Street and Pendleton ; and the appearance of 

 the cab in 1839. The British Association held its 

 meetings in Manchester in 1842, 1861, and 1887. 



Manchester does not seem to have had any rush- 

 bearing of its own, but the rush carts from neighbour- 

 ing towns and villages were brought to it."' 



At Hulme Barracks are stationed a battery of the 

 Royal Horse Artillery and an Army Service Corps. 

 There are numerous volunteer corps — the 7th L.V. 

 Artillery, Hyde Road ; 3rd L.R. Engineers ; 2nd, 

 4th, and 5th V.B. Manchester Regiment, at Stretford 

 Road, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Ardwick respec- 



tively ; and a cadet battalion ; also a Royal Army 

 Medical Corps (Vol.). 



The press has long been active in Manchester. 

 The following are the principal newspapers now 

 issued : "' Daily — the Manchester Guardian, Liberal, 

 started in 1821 ; Courier, Conservative, 1825 ; Even- 

 ing News, Liberal, 1868; Evening Chronicle, and 

 Daily Dispatch ; Weekly — City News, 1864 ; also the 

 Sunday Chronicle, 1885 ; Umpire, 1884; and Weekly 

 Times, 1857. A large number of magazines is 

 published. Tit Bits first appeared in Manchester in 

 iSSi.'*" 



The cathedral church of OUR 

 CATHEDRAL LADT, ST. GEORGE, AND ST. 

 DENrS,'^^ while not challenging a 

 comparison with the great cathedrals of the country, 

 is a fine and dignified building, preserving far more 

 evidence of its architectural history than in the face of 

 the sweeping restorations and rebuildings it has under- 

 gone in modern times would seem possible. A project 

 for building an entirely new cathedral church was 

 mooted, but abandoned, about 1881. The present 

 church is 220 ft:, long from the east face of the Lady 

 chapel to the west face of the tower, and 1 1 6 ft. 

 wide across the nave. It has a nave 85 ft. long, 

 with double aisles and north and south porches, an 

 eastern arm 82 ft. long, with north and south aisles 

 and chapels, an eastern Lady chapel, a chapter-house on 

 the south, and a large west tower with a west porch. 

 From the time of its becoming a collegiate church in 

 1 42 1 its history can be set forth with some com- 

 pleteness, and of work older than this date enough 

 remains, or can be shown to have existed, to establish 

 the fact that before the middle of the 1 4th century 

 the church was practically as long as it is to-day, 

 the western porch always excepted, and had north 

 and south aisles to nave and chancel, together with 

 a Lady chapel and a west tower. The oldest work 

 still standing is to be found in the west arch 

 and lower parts of the walls of the Lady chapel 

 and in the eastern responds of the quire arcades. 

 It dates from c. 1330, and implies a lengthening, 

 or rebuilding, of the chancel of the old parish 

 church at this date, with the addition of an eastern 



281 See Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Pal. Note Bk. 

 ii, 38; Procter, Manch. Streets, 269. 

 There is a presentation portrait of him in 

 the Manchester Free Library. 



282 Diet. Nat. Biog. 28» Ibid. 

 2M Ibid. 



2S5 Ibid. 



2*5 Diet. Nat. Biog. His elder brothers, 

 Aobert Hyde Greg, 1795-187;, econo- 

 mist and antiquary, M.P. for Manchester, 

 1839 ; and Samuel Greg, 1804-76, phil- 

 anthropist, are also noticed in Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 



287 Diet. Nat. Biog. 288 ibid. 



289 Ibid. 240 Ibid. 



241 Ibid. 242 Ibid. 



2J3 Ibid. ; Pal. Note Bk. iii, 213. 



244 Gillow, op. cit. ii, 397 ; Diet. Nat, 

 Biog. 



245 Diet. Nat, Biog. He was editor of 

 the Athenaeum from 1853 to 1869, and 

 published many historical and geographi- 

 cal works. 



248 Diet. Nat, Biog, ; her maiden name 

 was Varley. 



247 Ibid. 248 Ibid. 



249 Ibid. 250 Ibid. 



281 The notice in the Evening News 



stated that he was educated at Manchester 

 Grammar School, and traded as a ging- 

 ham manufacturer. He took part in the 

 public life of the district in various ways — 

 as a worker in Cotton Famine relief of 

 1862-3, t''* *--''y Council (conservative 

 member), and Anglican Church defence ; 

 he also wrote a number of popular works 

 on the history of the district, and in 1873 

 was elected F.S.A. He added accounts 

 of the parochial clergy in his edition of 

 Baines. He died i Sept. 1893, while 

 travelling from Manchester to his home 

 at Prestbury. 



252 Diet. Nat. Biog, 25s ibid. 



254 Ibid. 255 Ibid. 



286 Diet. Nat. Biog, ; Lanes, and Ches. 

 Antiq. Soc. xiii, 143. He edited the Ct. 

 Leet Rec. and Constables' Aeets, for the 

 Manchester Corporation. 



257 Diet. Nat, Biog, 



258 Alfred Burton, Rushbearing, and the 

 illustration in Procter's Maneh, Streets. 



259 A full list is given in the Official 

 Red Book. 



260 The publishing oifice was transferred 

 to London in 1884. 



261 For a description written about 



187 



1650 see Richard HoUinworth, Mancu- 

 niemisf ^6j 47,119, In Hibbert-Ware'ff 

 Manch. Foundations (1830) will be found 

 plans of the church before and after the 

 changes made in 181 5, as well as many 

 views of the building. A supplementary 

 volume was issued in 1848, relating t& 

 the collegiation. See also Glynne, Lanes, 

 Churches (Chet. Soc), 1 15-122 ; Lanes, 

 and Ches, Anttq. Soc. xi, 21 ; xiv, 62. A 

 detailed architectural description by Mr. 

 T. Locke Worthington was issued in 

 1884, but the most authoritative work is- 

 the Architectural History by J. S. Crowther, 



1893. 



In 1649 in consequence of the increase 

 of the congregations, seats were placed. 

 * where the organs lately stood ; ' and 

 eight years later through a benefaction 

 hy Richard HoUinworth, who was morning- 

 lecturer, a second gallery was built f 

 Manch. Corp. D. 



Bishop Nicholson in 1704 thought the 

 church ' a neat and noble fabric' 



The * evidences ' of the town were ia 

 1648 ordered to be kept in the room over 

 the church porch ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec* 

 iv, 26. 



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