io Thomson, Presidential Address. 



Chester to Paris far the reli&J of thiei wounded in the Revolution 

 of July of that 'year, and Co congratulate Louis Philippe on 

 his election to the throne, and as Chairman of the Reform 

 League, he arranged public meetings in large towns in favour 

 of the British Government recognising Louis Philippe, which 

 influenced it in rejecting the overtures of Russia and Prussia 

 to make a joint war to restore Charles X. l!n 1832 he estab- 

 lished machine-making works at Gamaches, Somme, France: 

 These were destroyed in the resolution, by which he lost 

 ,£126,000. 



He established the Bank tof Manchester, which ended in 

 disaster, and thereby be lost ,£96,000. H|ef aided in the estab- 

 lishment of the Manchester Royal Institution and the Man- 

 chester Mechanics' Institute. 



In conjunction with Edwin iBaxter, John Shuttleworth, J. B. 

 Smith, M.P., and others, Mr. Dyer took the first step for 

 founding a newspaper in Manchester jt,o support the Cause of 

 enlightened Liberalism. The Manchester Guardian was the 

 result, the management!, literary and Commercial, being in- 

 trusted tio John Edward Taylor and Jeremiah Garnett. He 

 was also active in founding the; Manchester, Liverpool, and 

 District Bank, which, falling into- better' hands, was more for- 

 tunate than the Bank of Manchester In 1839 Mr. ( Dyer built 

 Moldeth Hall (now used as a home for incurables). 



Richard Roberts, elected 1823, was a constant attendant at 

 the Council Meetings of the Society fioir "many years. He was 

 born at Carreghoiva, in North Wales, 1789, died in London, 

 1864, aged 75 years. He had exhausted Mb funds in constant 

 experiments, and died a| polor man. As a youth he worked 

 in mines and stone quarries and dragged canal boats. Acci- 

 dent gave him an opportunityi of working with a pole lathe, 

 and he made for his mother; a spinning wheel, a feat so re- 

 markable for a boy whoi never was at school, that a sub- 

 scription was got up for him to give him a tool chest. 

 He became a member of thej great firm of Sharp-, Roberts, 

 and Co., and during his life produced 300 inventions, the best 

 known being the self-acting nude. He invented the slide lathe, 

 the slotting machine with automatic motion, and the planing 

 (machine. He constructed the blockade runner " Flora," and 

 other vessels, and at one time( made turret clocks. 



He was consulted by Napoleon HI. about turret ships, and 

 the Emperor Nicholas invited him to take up his residence in 

 St. Petersburg. 



Dr. James Prescott Joule, F.R.S,, elected a member of the 



