DiRECTORY.] . . 753 MARKET HARBOROUGH UNION. • PLACES OF WoRSHIP, with times of services :- St. Denis or Dionysius Church, Rev. Robert Guinness M. A. Board day, alternate fridays, at the Union house, at II o'clock vicar; Rev. Andrew John Robertson B.A. curate; 8 a.m. (Holy Communion) & 11 a.m. 3 p.m. (children's service) The Union comprises the following places :- & 6.3op.m.; week days,8 a.m. (except wed. &fri. II a.m.) (), Ashley (Northampton), Bowden Magna & 5.30 p.m. (except wed. 8 p.m. with sermon); holy days, & Bowden Parva, Brampton .Ash (Northampton), Bray­ Holy Communion 8 a.m. morning u, evening with sermon brooke (Northampton), Clipston (Northampton), , 8; mission service at the Institute, Coventry road, at 6.45 Dingley (Northampton), (Northampton), p.m. sundays East Langton, Fleckney, Foxton, Glooston, Great Oxen­ Our Lady of Victories Catholic, Rev. Anthony J;relle, priest; don (Northampton), Gumley, Hothorpe (Northampton), Holy Communion,8.3o a. m.; mass, 10.30 a. m.; children's Husbands Bosworth, (Northampton), Kibworth service, 3 p.m. ; benediction & vespers, 6. 30 ; daily, mass Beauchamp, Kibworth Harcourt, Laughton, l..uben­ 7.30 a.m ham, Market Harborough, Marston Trnssell (Northamp­ Baptist, Rev. James Whitford; 10.45 a. m. & 6 p.m. ; mon. ton), Mowsley, Saddington, Shangton, (North­ & wed. 7.30 p.m ampton),Smeeton Westerby, (Northamptou ), Congregational, Rev. William Edward Morris, minister ; Stonton Wyville, Sulby (Northampton), 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; mon. & wed. 7.30 p.m (Northampton), Theddingworth, 'fhorpe Langton, Tur Wesleyan, Rev. Thomas Hen wood & Rev. Samuel Rathnell, Langton, W elham, West Langton, W eston-by-W elland ministers; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m (Northampton), , Thorpe Lubenham (North­ ampton). The population of the union in 1881 was 16,196 ; ScuooLs:- rateable value in 1890, £165,117 The Grammar School, on the south side of the church, was built & endowed in 1614 for fifteen poor scholars by l\lr_ & Clerk to the Guardians Assessment Committee, Charles Robert Smyth, a native of tbis town & citizen & merchant­ Burgoine, High street taylor of London. The school trustees receive from the Treasurer, James Lawford, Leicestershire Bank, Leicester Court of Aldermen of the City of London an annual sum Collectors of Poor Rates, Leicester c Bosworth (Husbands), of £10 on account of the foundation & 40s. yearly for re­ Henry Loomes; Bowden (Great), John Bland; Fleckney, pairing the school-house; Richard Weston, ofPaulerspury, R. C. Iliffe; Foxton, lsaac Brown ; Gumley, Isaac Brown; by will, left a house in the Sheep market, Market Ear­ Harborough (Market), Thomas William Hall; Kibworth borough, for the master ; the land upon which this house Harcourt, F. Bolton; Kibworth Beauchamp, F. J. Love­ stood is now let for £14 yearly~ Christopher Shaw, a day; Kilmarsh, John Kitchin; Langton (East & West), native of this place, & also a merchant in London, further Abraham Vendy; Lubenham, William Neale; Smeeton endowed the 11chool with £3 yearly, subject to a land tax Westerby, J. T. Hunt; Welham, John Kendall. North­ of 12s. which is paid by the Embroiderers' Company of the ampton: Arthingworth, John Bland; Bowden (Little), City of London : there is also a rent-charge of£ 10 char~ed William E. Latimer; , Fredk. Broughton ; on an estate in J3raybrooke common, , Braybrooke, John Bland; Clipston, Joseph Haddon; the property of Viscount Downe: the school-house is a Dingley, John Bland; Oxendon (Great), John Bland; curious wooden-framed building, supported upon massive Sibbertoft, Shadrach Wilford ; Stoke Albany, Frederick oak pillar~ of great strength : the schoolroom, which is Broughton; Weston-by-Welland, William Carriss; Wil­ lofty and well lighted, will hold 40 boys : in 1868 the barston, Frederic.IC Broughton school-honse was thoroughly restored by private suhscrip• Relieving Officers & Collectors to the Guardians, No. 1 dis­ tion, & a scheme issued by the Charity Commissioners, trict, R. A. Plant, Coventry street, Market Harborough; under which the school is governed by a board of eight trustees, of whom tbe vicar, churchwardens & towns­ No. 2 district, David Goodrum, Great Bowden man of Market Harborough are members ex officio : the Vaccination Officer, T. W. Hall, High st. Market Harboro' Lord Mayor & aldermen of London appoint the head Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, 1st district, John master, who is at liberty to take private pupils, & has a Quick Costin, High street, Market Harborough ; 2nd dis- proportion of the capitation fees paid by the pupils: there trict, Ale,;ander Mcivor Tindall, The Lilacs, Fairfield their are six scholarships (tenable for three years), to be road, Market Harborough ; 3rd district, Shuckburgh awarded npon competition at the annual examination, Shackleford, Husbands Hosworth ; 4th district, Frederick three of these being awarded cxchH•ively to boys who at the Grant L.R.C.P.Bdin. 5 High street, Market Harborough; time have resided for a period of one year m th"' tuwu; sth district, Thomas ;Macaulay, Kibworth Beauchamp; Francis Hammond M. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, 6th district, Charles Frank Borebam, head master, with two assistant masters Superintendent Registrar, Charles Burgoine, High street National (girls & infants), erected in 1836 & enlarged in 1842, for 300 children; average attendance, 99 girls & 99 Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Market Harborough infants; Miss Sarah E. Boyd, mistress; Miss Ada Shaw, sub-district, Thomas William Hall, Market Harborough infants' mistress Half a mile north of the town, on the Leicester road, is the National (boys), built in 1879, for 160; average attend­ Union house, erected in 1836-7, for 200 inmates ; Stephen ance, 107; William Westfield Grundy, master Clark, m&ster ; Frederick Grant, medical officer ; Rev. Catholic (mixed), for about 150 children; average attend­ Robert Guinness M.A. chaplain; Miss I<'rances E. Cola­ ance, about 20 ; .Miss Mary T. lllake, mistress man, matron; .Miss Elizabeth Rowe, schoolmistress British, erected in 1838 & enlarged in 1886, for 428 child­ RURAL SANITARY AuTHORITY. ren ; average attendance, 310; William Henry Pool, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Pelisse, infants' mistress Clerk, Charles Burgoine, High street, Market Harborough Treasurer, James Lawford, Leicestershire Bank, Market NEWSPAPERS:- Harborongh The .Market Harborough Advertiser; office, Church street; Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Macauley, Kibworth William Eland, proprietor & publisher ; published tues Beauchamp The Market Harborough Mail, published by Alfred E. Wit- Inspector of Nuisances, Breedon Elliott, Kibworth Beau- kinson, High street, on fridays champ I RAILWAYS:- SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE :- 1 London & North Western, Frederick Sharp, station master Clerk, Charles Burgoine, High street, Market Harborough .Midland, Richard Tomlinson, agent Attendance Officers, the Relieving Officers CoNVEYANCE.-Omnibnses to the railway station from the PUBLIC O.FFICEBS :- Angel & Three Swans hotels to meet all the principal Assistant Overseer & Clerk to the Burial Board, Thomas trains William Hall, High street CARRIERS, with the places they go to, inns they call at & Certifying Factory Surgeon, Fredk. Grant L.R.C.P.Edin. 5 days of departure :­ High street ARNESBY-Parkinson, • Talbot,' tues Clerk to the Market Harborough Highway Board (meetings ARTHINGWORTH-l:lart. 'Old Crown,' tnes. thurs. & sat held at Kibworth), J. H. Douglass, High street ASHLEY-Payne, 'Sun,' tues. & sat Clerk to the 'fax Commissioners of the Gartree Hundred, BoswoRTH (HusBANDs)-Wrigbt, 'Sun,' tues. & sat.; Cross, James Heger Douglass, High street 'Old Crown,' tues Collector of the Income, Land & Assessed Taxes, Thomas -Thorpe, \Coach & Horses,' tues Willia.m Hall, High street CLIPSTONE-Eames, 'Bell,.' tues. thurs. & sat. ; Noble, 'Tal- Collector of Quit Rents, Market Tolls & Stall Rents, Joseph bot,' tues Deacon, Great Bowden CoRnY-Brooks, 'Rose & Crown,' tues Inspector of Weights & Measures & Superintendent of COTTINGHAM-Stretton, 'Fox.' tues. & sat County Police, Thomas Bott, Police station CRicx-'Walton, 'Talbot,' tues Supervisor of Inland Revenue, Michael Loftus, Sheep markt DESBOBOUGK-Rogers, 'Talbot,' tues. & sat Townsman, John Smith, St. Mary's road FABNDON-See Clipstone