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    bad been under the care of Mr . Turner , and afterwards of Dr Harwoodj at Congleton . After completing his course at Warrington he settled at Macclesfield ,

    where he continued as a minister till about 1778 , when he removed to Derby , and then to Birmingham , where he died after a short

    illness , Dec . 20 , 1787 . He published two spirited pamphlets in the subscription-controversy , 1772 and 3 f an improvement onByrora ' s Short Hand , and an Answer to

    Thtelyphthora : and in the Theological Repository , several articles , signed G . H- in the first three volumes ; and in the last three , a variety of very valuable and important papers under the signatures of Christophilos , Symmachus , and Erasmus . A short memoir of

    him was inserted by Dr . Priestley ici TheoL Repos . Vol . VI , p . 217 —224 . 35 . Nathaniel Cotton , D . St . Albans . Son of Dr . Cotton , author of the

    Fireside , Visions in Verse , &c . JFrom Warrington he went to Cambridge , took orders in the church of England , and now resides on his living at Thornby , in Northamptonshire . 36 . John Andrews Wilson *

    Rivington , died at Warrington . 37 . John Taylor , * M . Bolton . After five years removed to Edinburgh , whence after a long residence he removed to his native

    place about 1775 , and practised a& a physician with great success , though not with much emolument , till a short time before his death , in J 81 O , after having been cut for the stone , .. ... 38 . Edward Paddy , Bwightertoiw 39 . T . Maikoe , Tortola .

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    l ? 60 . 40 . Thomas Lees / Manchester . Son of John Lees ^ Esq . " ( afterwards John Carill Worsley ) of Platt . who succeeded Lord

    Willoughby as President of the Academy , tifl 1776 ) \\ hen he resigned it to Sir H . Hoghtbn . The son also was always h great friend to the interests of his Alma Mater

    and was generally one of the committee . He died about 1804 . 41 . Timothy Bentley , M ? Leicester . 42 . John Bourii , C . Stalming . 43 * Humphrey Humphreys , Newtown .

    44 # Isaac Cooksoi ) 3 C . Newcastle . An eminent merchant in his native place , of which he served the office of sheriff , 1777 . 45 . William Griffiths , * C Whitehaven .

    4 rJ . Robert Fisher * C . Ditrb . 47 . Benjamin Stapp , * D . Lon * don . This gentleman was considered as of great promise , ootn as to talents and acquirements fie

    was accordingly pitched upon as a proper person to take ih 6 charge of the preparatory school ( see Vol . VIII . p . 288 ) ; on the failure of which he settled at Shfewsbury ,

    in 1766 , as successor to Mr . Or . ton , and colleague with Mr . Fownes . The appointhient was an unhappy one ; either his doctrine , or his mode of delivering it > being very disagreeable to a considerable proportion of the society , a separation was the consequence , i ^ rom

    his uncomfortable situation he was relieved b y death , the consequence of a fever , in 1767 , iiiit tlie breach was irreparable ' - Sec Dr . Kip pis ' s Lite of Orfbn , ap . 'Do ^ drmgc . Biog . Ur . " V . * 3 lO . -

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    2 O 4 > Sindents educated at tkt fVarrington Academy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/4/