Instituted 

 19 June, 1690 

 12 Jan. 

 6 Mar 



25 Juiy> 



18 Sept 

 29 Jan 



721-2 . 



1734-5- 

 1737 . 

 1740 , 

 174.1-2 



13 Jan. 1745-6 

 10 Sept. 1778 

 24 April, 1797 

 10 Feb. 1818 

 15 Oct. 1821 



15 May, 1824 



14 Nov. 1829 

 20 Sept. 1870 

 14 Jan. 1896 



16 Oct. 1903 



WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



Name Presented by 



Ralph Markland, M.A. ' . . . . Bishop of Chester . . 

 Theophilus Kelsall, B.A. ' . . . . 



Roger Barnston, M.A. ' „ . . 



William Ward, B.A. * 



Robert Whiston ' „ . . 



Abel Ward, M.A. ^ 



Thomas Tonman, M.A. ' „ . . 



Matthew Worthington * „ . . 



William Bowe" „ , . 



James Thomas Law, M.A.'" .... „ . . 



Henry Law, M.A." „ . . 



i Augustus Campbell, M.A." .... „ . . 



George Winter Warr, M.A. "... „ . . 



Peter Sorensen Royston, D.D. " . . Bishop of Liverpool . 



Richard Montague Ainslie, M.A. " . . „ . . 



CHILDWALL 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. T. West 

 d. of R. Markland 

 d. T. Kelsall 

 res. R. Barnston 

 d. W.Ward 

 res. R. Whiston 

 res. Abel Ward 

 res. T. Tonman 

 d. M. Worthington 

 res. W. Bowe 

 res. J. T. Law 



res. H. Law 



d. of A. Campbell 

 d. G. W. Warr 

 res. P. S. Royston 



Robert Greves was vicar during the greater part of 

 Henry VIII's reign. In 1541 he paid an assistant 

 named Richard Greves ; there were three other 

 priests,*® probably serving the chapels at Hale and 

 Garston, and the chantry priest, so that the staff 

 numbered five or six. At the visitation of 1548 the 

 clergy remained the same in number, but at the 

 visitation in 1554, when the Edwardian changes had 

 had effect and the temporary reaction was only be- 

 ginning, the clergy had been reduced to three.*' The 

 services at Garston chapel had probably been discon- 

 tinued. The vicar had held his place through several 

 changes ; it is not known whether he died or resigned 



before the next, but in January, 1557-8 Bishop Scott 

 gave him leave to agree with Richard Norris, priest, 

 as to his retirement, Norris to pay him a suitable 

 pension.*® 



William Crosse, the next vicar, was ordained deacon 

 at Chester in 1555,*^ and as he answered as vicar at 

 the visitations of 1562 and 1565 must be considered 

 a conformist — for the time at least ; in 1563 he was 

 absent, 'excused by the bishop,' and in 1569 he 

 resigned. He was the only clergyman who repre- 

 sented Childwall in 1562-3.^'* 



The chantry at the altar of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr was founded in 1484 by Thomas Norris 



^ Ralph Markland, of Jesus Coll. 

 Camb. (M.A. 1682), was son of Ralph 

 Markland of Wigan ; information of 

 Dr. Morgan, master of the coll. For his 

 family see Dugdale's yisit. (Chet. Soc), 

 193. He was the father of Jeremiah 

 Markland. 



2 Theophilus Kelsall, previously curate 

 of St. Helens, was educated at Camb. ; 

 B.A. 1710. He died Feb. 1734.-5 ; monu- 

 ment in church. 



^ Roger Barnston was the second son 

 of Roger Barnston of Churton near 

 Chester, He was educated at Trinity 

 Coll. Camb. (M.A. 1734), and became 

 rector of Condover in Shropshire and a 

 canon of Chester. He was twice married, 

 but died childless in 1782, and was 

 buried at Farndon ; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. 

 Helsby), li, 74.7. 



* William Ward, son of Francis Ward 

 of Shervill In Devon, was educated at 

 Exeter Coll. Oxf. but graduated from 

 Edmund Hall (B.A. 1728) ; Foster, 

 Alumni. 



* A Robert Whiston of Shropshire was 

 of Magdalen Hall, Oxf. graduating in 

 1739; Foster, jilumni. 



® Abel Ward was a Staffordshire man. 

 He entered Queens' Coll. Camb. as a 

 sizar in 1736, and was elected fellow in 

 1740 soon after taking his B.A. degree ; 

 M.A. 1744. He held his fellowship dur- 

 ing his vicariate, vacating it by his pro- 

 motion to a prebendal stall at Chester in 

 1744. He was a Whig and rose rapidly, 

 resigning Childwall for St. Ann's, Man- 

 chester. He died at Neston in 1785. See 

 inscription in Chest. Cath.j Ormerod, Ches. 

 i, 296 ; Note of Rt. Rev. Dr. Chase, lately 

 President of Queens* Coll. 



7 Thomas Tonman was the son of 

 Roger Tonman of New Radnor ; educated 

 at Jesus Coll. Oxf. ; he graduated M.A. 

 in 1744. He was vicar of Little Bud- 



worth in Ches. He died 8 March, 1783, 

 aged 64 ; there are monuments to him 

 and his wife Dorothy (daughter of Dr. 

 Samuel Peploe) in the Lady Chapel in 

 Chest, Cath. ; Foster, Alumni ; Ormerod, 

 Ches. i, 296. 



s Matthew Worthington had been 

 curate of Wood Plumpton near Preston 

 for forty-two years. With but a scanty 

 income to supply the wants of a large 

 family, he at last resolved to write to the 

 bishop (Beilby Porteous), stating his case, 

 and asking if his lordship could use any 

 charitable funds at his disposal for their 

 assistance. The bishop, struck by the 

 letter, raised by subscription a sum of 

 money for the writer, and when Child- 

 wall fell vacant promoted him to it. 

 See the letter in Baines, Lanes, (ed. 

 Croston), v, 44. Joseph Sharpe, minister 

 (curate) of Childwall, published sermons 

 preached there; Local Gleanings, i, 187, 

 192. 



^ William Bowe was master of the 

 grammar school at Scorton, in the North 

 Riding, and had licence to reside out of 

 the parish, 



^'^ James Thomas Law, eldest son of the 

 then bishop, was a fellow of Christ's 

 Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1815; and became 

 master of St. John's Hospital, Lich- 

 field, and chancellor of the diocese of 

 Lichfield. He died 22 Feb. 1876 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. 



1^ Henry Law was' another son of the 

 bishop. He was fellow and tutor of 

 St. John's Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1823. 

 Following his father to the diocese of 

 Bath and Wells, he became canon and 

 archdeacon there, and was afterwards 

 (1862) dean of Gloucester, dying in Nov. 

 1884; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



^2 Augustus Campbell was of Trinity 

 Coll. Camb.; M.A. 181 2. He was 

 made rector of Wallasey in 18 14, and 



107 



resigned it for Childwall in 1824. To 

 this a mediety of the rectory of Liverpool 

 was added in 1829 (he afterwards became 

 sole rector) ; this accounts for the double 

 institution at Childwall. He held both 

 preferments till his death at Childwall on 

 15 May, 1870, in the eighty-fifth year of 

 his age. There is in the church a monu- 

 ment to his son Major P. Campbell, who 

 was wounded at the Alma and afterwards 

 died in the Crimea of fever. 



^^ George Winter Warr had been the 

 incumbent of St. Saviour's, Liverpool, 

 He was an honorary canon of Chester 

 from 1870 to 1880, when he had the 

 same dignity at Liverpool. 



1^ Peter Sorensen Royston graduated 

 at Camb. from Trinity Coll. ; M.A. 

 1861, D.D. 1873. He was appointed 

 bishop of the Mauritius in 1872, and 

 after his resignation became assistant to 

 Bishop Ryle of Liverpool, who presented 

 him to Childwall. 



^s Richard Montague Ainslie, M.A. 

 Cambridge (1885, Pembroke Coll.), was 

 previously incumbent of St, Saviour's, 

 Liverpool, 



^^ Clergy List of 1541-2 (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches,), 16. 



^7 John Ainsdale the vicar, Thomas 

 Plombe (chantry priest — his occupation 

 gone), marked ' decrepltus,' and James 

 Whitford of Hale. 



^8 Norris D. (B.M.). For the orna- 

 ments in 1552, after some had disappeared, 

 see Ch. Goods (Chet. Soc), go, 91. In 

 1 5 17 three new bells were made for the 

 church by Richard Seliock of Notting- 

 ham ; the great bell 5181b., the less 

 bell 417 lb., and Mr. Norris's bell 41 lb. ; 

 Norris D. (B.M.). 



^^ Ordination Book (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 86. 



2^ The above particulars are from the 

 visitation lists at Chester. 



