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LANCASHIRE WORTHIES (2 VOLUMES)

Written by Francis Espinasse
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. in 1874

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Front cover

Cover of LANCASHIRE WORTHIES (2 VOLUMES) by Francis Espinasse

Contents

  • Volume 1
  • I. The First Stanley Earl of Derby
  • II. The Founder of the Manchester Grammar School
  • III. John Bradford, Saint and Martyr
  • IV. Jeremiah Horrocks
  • V. Humphrey Chetham
  • VI. The First Member for Manchester
  • VII. James Stanley, Seventh Earl of Derby
  • VII. Booth the Player
  • IX. John Byrom
  • X. John Collier ("Tim Bobbin")
  • XI. The "Great" Duke of Bridgewater
  • XII. John Kay and James Hargreaves
  • XIII. Richard Arkwright
  • Volume 2
  • I. Samuel Crompton
  • II. The Founder of the Peel Family
  • III. The First Sir Robert Peel
  • IV. Thomas Percival
  • V. Captain James King
  • VI. George Romney
  • VII. Henry Cort
  • VIII. The Towneleys of Towneley
  • IX. John Dalton
  • X. William Roscoe
  • XI. Felicia Hemans
  • XII. John Drinkwater-Bethune
  • XIII. The Two Thomas Walkers
  • XIV. Maria Jane Jewsbury
  • XV. Henry Liverseege
  • XVI. Sir John Barrow
  • XVII. William Whewell
  • XVIII. Thomas De Quincey
  • XIX. Samuel Bamford
  • Not on the Chevalier Towneley and Hudibras