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Acland, Sir Richard, 123,134,135 Blakiston, Sir William, 19 Agriculture, Ministry of, 134 Blandford, Walter, bishop of Aikin, J. A., 46 Oxford, 22 Anderton, 40 bleaching, 57, 61 Anson by-law, 91, 93, 111 blitz, 82 Approved School, 74 Blundell family, 139 ashes, 57 Bodleian Library, 3 Aspinall, Lewis, 42, 54 Bolton, 18, 35, 36, 60 Attlee, Clement, 131 Bolton Green, 46 aumbry, 140-42 Booth, Richard, 57, 58 Boothman, George, 96 Backford, 12,18 Bootle, 76 Bailey, C. W., 107,108 Bowden, 13 Barbary pirates, 26 Braddock, councillor, 106 Barker, Alexander, 39 Bradley, 12-13 Barking, 20 Bridgeman, Henry, dean of barley, 46, 50, 51 , 6 Barlow, Sir John, 129,138 Bridgeman, John, bishop of Bamston, Harry, 122 Chester, 6, 7,15,19, 28 Baron, John, 42-43 Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, lord Baron, William, 54, 55, 59 chief justice, 7, 8 Barton, W. H., 110 Brigg, M., 52 Bath, Robert, 19 Bristol, 81 Beauchamp, earl, 131 Bristol, bishop/bishopric, 21, 24 Bentley, Frank, 132 British Association of Social Beveridge, William, 132 Workers, 78 Beveridge Report, 124,134 Brown, Ernest, 131 Bevins, J. R., 105,107 Browne, Hugh, 54 Birchall, Margaret, 54 Buckingham, duke of, 22 Bird, John, bishop of Chester, 6 Bndworth, 18 Birkenhead Council of Social Buller, Robert, 45 Service, 76 Burke, councillor, 110 Birmingham, 81 Burt, Cyril, 66 Bispham, 39 butter and butter making, 46 , 36, 63 buttermilk, 57, 61 Blackwood, B. G., 36 Blakiston, Gabriel, 19 Calderbank, William, 57 Index 189

Cambridge, Trinity College, 20 Chester, 6, 8,125,126,127,135 Camden Society, 2 Abbey Court, 3, 6 Canterbury, archdeacon/archdeaconry, archdeacon/archdeaconry, 14,16, 27 20, 26, 29 Archdeacon’s House, 12 Cantonese, 77 assembly, 6 Carlyle, William, 110-11 bishop’s palace, 1, 2, 3, 4, Caroe, W. D , 140 5,10, 23, 24 Carr-Saunders, Alexander, 67 castle, 1 Cartwright, Thomas, bishop of cathedral/abbey church of Chester, 2, 8, 9, 10,13,15, St Werburgh, 3, 4, 6, 25 17,18,19, 20,22,23, 26, dean and chapter of, 5, 6, 28 8, 24, 25, 29 Cartwright, John, 15, 28 Consistory Court, 10,16, Catlishe, John, 54 29 Catterall, Robert, 54 registry, 10 catde, 46, 49 Chester Archaeological and Central Council for the Education Historical Society, 2 and Training of Social Chetham Society, 2 Workers, 78 Children Act, 1948, 70 Central Training Council in Child Children’s Departments, 71, 79 Care, 70 Children’s Officers, 83 Cerman, M., 63 Chinese community, 77 Chadderton, 7 Chipping, 39, 41, 52 Chamberlain, Neville, 133 Chisnall, Clement, 54, 56 Charity Organisation Society, 67 , 58 Charles I, 10 Chowbent, 36, 60 Charles II, 2,13, 24, 25 Chrichlow, Mary, 58 Chamock Green, 46 Church of Children’s Chatterton, father, 98 Homes, 71 cheese and cheese making, 46, 48, Church of England Diocesan 49, 61 Board of Education, 93 Chelmsford, 123, 138 Churchill, Sir Winston, 121, 127, cheese, 48 131,133,136,137 Chester, bishop and bishopric, 1- civil war, English, 3, 4, 5, 26, 36 34 civil war, Spanish, 133 expenditure and expenses Clapham, 18 of, 2-5, 7-8, 14-15, 21-27, Cleary,Joseph, 91, 105, 111, 113 30-34 clergymen, 73 income of, 10-22, 30-34 Clitherow, Richard, 96,107 rents and leases of, 1115, clocks and clock making, 62 17-18 Clopton tomb, 141 residences of, 1, 3-10 190 Index

coal mining and collieries, 36, 60, Dr Bamado’s Homes, 71 61 doctors, 73 Common Wealth party, 123, 124, Douglas valley, 62 132,133,134,135,137, Downey, Richard, archbishop of 138 , 86, 90, 95,102, consecration of bishops, 22 108,109,112,113,116, Conservative Party, 122,123, 128, 118 129,131 Dudley, 83 Constitutional Club, 129,132 Duffy, E , 141 Cooke, F. V., 127 Dunbar, councillor, 114,117 , 41, 43 Dunlops, 82 Coppull Moor, 46 Duppa, Sir Thomas, 22 com, 50, 51 Duppa, Brian, bishop of Cornwall, 21 Winchester, 24 Cottingham, 12 Dutch War, second, 14 Council for the Training of Social Duxbury, 54, 62 Workers, 78 Dytor, councillor, 110 Cowthorpe church, 141 Cresswell, councillor, 90 Easter, 140-41 Crosby, A. G., 45 Easter sepulchre, 140-42 Crosse, William, 43 Ecclesiastical Commission, Court , 1, 2, 6, 10,11,19, 20 of, 9 Cumella, Mary, 112 Eddisbury, 121-38 Cummings, A. J., 136 Ede, James Chuter, 136 Curtis, D. M. C., 138 Education Act, 1870,119 Curtis Committee, 70 Education Act, 1921, 90 customs and excise, 19 Education Act, 1936, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 97, D’Aeth, Frederic, 66, 67, 72 99,100,101,103,104,112, Danby Wisk, 19 113,117,119,120 David, Albert, bishop of Education Act, 1944, 120 Liverpool, 102 Education, Board of, 86-120 Davies, H. V., 132 Education, Ministry of, 74 deans, rural, 15, 27-28, 29 elections Delamere, lord, 13 municipal, 1937, 85-86, 88, Delamere Forest, 135 91, 96, 97,102,105,107, de la Warr, lord, 118 111, 112 Denbigh, 126 municipal, Kirkdale by- Derby, lord, 103 election, 1938, 104 Dicconson, Edward, 41, 43 municipal, 1938,106-07, Dickenson, Richard, 43, 54, 57 109,110, 111 Diocesan Moral Welfare agencies, 82 Index 191

parliamentary, general Gonner, E. C. K., 66 elections, 121, 122, 123, Goose, N., 62 125,126,129,137,138 Gordon, councillor, 87, 88, 90, parliamentary, East Fife 93, 95, 99,101,114,115 by-election, 1933, 125 Gordon, E. J. A., 140 parliamentary, Eddisbury Gough manuscript, 16 be-election, 1921, 122 Grasmere, 19 parliamentary, Eddisbury Green, Margaret, 54 by-election, 1943, 121-38 Ely, bishop/bishopric, 21, 44 Hadow Report, 85, 98 Elmley, lord, 131 Hall, George, bishop of Chester, episcopal visitations, 16, 18 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 ,1 2 ,1 3 ,1 5 , eugenics, 83 16,17,18, 20, 21,23,24, Evans, N., 62 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Evelyn, John, 22 Hall, Gertrude, 4 Exchequer, 1, 2 Hall, Penelope, 83 Halliwell, Alexander, 43 Family Service Units, 71, 82, 83 Harford, Austin, 114, 118 Farrington, 43 Hawton, 141 Feme, Henry, bishop of Chester, hay, 50, 51, 52 9.14.18, 20, 26, 27 health visitors, 66, 69 Finch, Lawrence, 43 Health, Ministry of, 70 first fruits, 14-15, 20, 25 hearth tax, 5, 6 Fisher, Henry, 49 Heckington, 141 Flanner, Philip, 28 Helsby, 121,129 flax, 51 Henry VIII, 6,14, 27,141 Fleming, Sir Daniel, 19 Heraud, Brian, 78, 79 Foster, C., 48, 49 Herbert, Aubrey, 125 Foster, Robert, 40, 43, 54, 56 Hill, Herriot, 91 France, William, 43, 49 Hill, John, 54 further education, colleges of, 78 Hirschberg, D. R., 16 Fyfe, David Maxwell, 119 Hirst, F. W., 137 Fylde, 39, 52 Hogan, Luke, 87, 90, 95, 96,101, 103,104,105,106,108, Gastrell, Francis, bishop of 109, 111, 112,113,114, Chester, 2, 5,11,12,13, 115,116,118 14 .1 5 .1 6 .1 7 .1 8 , 28 Holden, S. Mortimer, 132 George I, 2 Holland, 20 German, Margaret, 59 Holland, Thomas, 49 Gibson, William, 124,125,126, Holmes, Randle, 3, 4,10,11 127 Holt, Edward, 40, 41 Gloucester, bishop/bishopric of, Home Office, 70, 74, 75 10, 24 Horley, E., 140 192 Index

Howard, Seymour, 131,132 and Cheshire Record Husbands, C., 37 Society, 2 Hyatt, James, 1,19 Lancashire, Cheshire and North Western Liberal Indemnity, Act of, 5 Federation, 124,125,126 Ireland, 26 Langtree, 55 Ironfield, C., 39, 41, 52 Latin, 73 Ironside, Gilbert, bishop of Laud, William, archbishop of Bristol, 24 Canterbury', 7, 19 Lea, Grace, 58 Jackson, Anne, 17 Leadbetter, A., 110 James II, 21, 26 Lee, Thomas, 48, 49, 50, 57 Joint Committee on Family Leftwich, councillor, 104 Casework Training, 82 Leyland, 43 Jolly, Francis, 50 lime, 57 Johnson’s the Cleaners, 77, 82 Liberal Party, 121-38 Jones, David Caradog, 82, 83 Liberal National Party, 121-38 Jones, E. Morris, 109 Lincoln, bishop/bishopric of, 10 Jones, Howard, 80 Lincoln cathedral, 141 Jones, , 91 Lindsay, Parliamentary Secretary Jude, James, 91,116 for Education, 89, 95-96, Juvenile Employment Bureau, 74, 103.119 76, 77 Litde, Thomas, 132 Juxon, William, archbishop of Uverpolitan, 96 Canterbury, 24 Liverpool, 35, 85-120, 123 Abercomby, 105,107,109 Keeling, Dorothy, 72, 81 Catholic pro-cathedral, 89 Kelly, Thomas, 66 dockside area, 87,100, Kidderminster, 57 104.120 Kindesley, William, 48, 50, 56, 57, Everton, 97,102 58 Exchange, 102 King, Gregory, 19, 23 Fairfield, 107 Kirby, B. V., 102 Fazackerly, 107 Kirkby chapelry, 28 Garston, 110 Kirkby Ravensworth, 17 Granby, 110 Knight, William, 27 Ince Blundell Knutsford, 129 Kirkdale, 104,108,110 little Crosby, 139 Labour Party, 121,123,124,131, Old Swan, 104 138 Sacred Heart churc, 97 Labour Party National Executive St Aiden’s College, 66 Committee, 117 St Domingo, 108 Lamplugh, Thomas, 20 St Domingo Pitt, 109 Index 193

St Emmanuel church, 97 Liverpool Workingmen’s St Mary’s church, Kirkdale, Conservative Association, 109 110 St Sylvester’s school, 98 Orange Order, 85, 110 Scotiand, 89 Protestant Party, 88,104, Scodand Road, 119 108,113, 114 Sefton, 139-42 Liverpool, University of, 65-84 Walton Department/School of Wavertree, 96 Social Science, 65, 66 Liverpool Archdiocesan Department of Special Education Committee, 94, Collections and Archives, 97 71 Liverpool Board of Moral Lloyd, John, 27 Welfare, 76 Logan, David, 89, 96,102,103, Liverpool Central Relief Society, 107,112,119 66 lollipop man, 73 Liverpool Child Welfare , 8,10, 12, 48, 87,131 Organisation, 76 Aldersgate Steet, 8 Liverpool city council, 85-120 Chancery Lane, 9 Education Committee, 85- Chapel Street, 120 Westminster, 9 Elementary Education King Street, 9 Sub-Committee, 110 Lincoln’s Inn, 9 Lord Mayor, 89 Lincoln Square, 9 Liverpool Council for Social Pall Mall, 9 Service, 72 St Botolph’s, Aldersgate, 9 Liverpool Council of Voluntary St James’s, 10 Aid, 72 St Paul’s cathedral, 22, 25 Liverpool Daily Post, 96 Stepney, 9 Uverpool Diocesan Review, 109 London County Council, 74-75 Liverpool Domestic Science London School of Economics, College, 66 67, 68, 77, 78, 81, 82, 84 Liverpool LEA, 93,100,117 London, University of, 77 Liverpool Personal Service School of Oriental and Society, 72, 76, 81, 82 African Studies, 77 Liverpool, political parties and Longbottom, alderman, 86, 88, groups in, 90,102,104,108,110,112, Centre Party, 114 113,114,116,117,118 Conservative Party, 85-120 Longbottom, Mrs, 108 Irish Nationalists, 85,117 Long Melford, 141 Labour Party, 85-120 Loverseed, John, 123,132,133, Liberal Party, 85 134,135,137,138 194 Index

Macadam, Elizabeth, 67, 72 oats, 46, 50, 51 Manchester, 28, 35, 36, 53, 73, Office of Friendly Help, 72 123 Ogilvie, S. C., 63 collegiate church, 2, 7 Oldham, 126 University of, 83 O’Neill, Dennis, 70 Manchester Guardian, 130, 133,136 Oxford, bishop/bishopric, 5, 22 Martindale, Adam, 4 Oxfordshire, 83 Mary II, 12 Maudesley Hospital, 81 pacifism, 83 Meredith, Sir Amos, 23 Pacifist Service Units, 82 Merseyside, 76, 83 parliament, 8, 89, 95-96,103,119 Merseyside Hospitals, 77 House of Commons, 119, metal production, 36 134,136 milk, 46, 49, 50 House of Lords, 22, 119 Miller, G., 62 Patrick Brompton, 17 Molyneux family, 139 Peacock, Thomas, 129,130, 131, Molyneux, Sir William, 140 132,134,135,137,138 Monckton, Sir Walter, 111-12 Pearson, John, bishop of Chester, Moral Welfare Association, 74 6,12,13,15,18,19,20, 21, Morrison, Herbert, 117 23, 26, 29 Mott, C. E, 98, 99,100 Pendle Forest, 52 Pennines, 45, 53 nails and nail making, 36, 60 pensions, 16 National Children’s Homes, 74, Pepys, Samuel, 9 82 Peterborough, bishop/bishopric National Farmers’ Union, 129, of, 10 130, 135 Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus, 139, 140 National Institute of Social Work, pigs, 46 83 Pinker, Robert, 69 National Liberal Federation, 124 plundered ministers, committee National Trust, 123 for, 25 Newcome, Henry, 9 polytechnics, 78, 79 News Chronicle, 136 poor law and officers, 66 Nicholson, William, bishop of Poor Law Examination Board, 70 Gloucester, 24 Pope, Walter, 28 Nigeria, 74 Porteus, T. C., 62 Norfolk, 21,131,133 potatoes, 36 , 129 Poulton, 39 Northwold, 141 Practical Advisory Executive Notitia Cestriensis, 2 ,1 1 ,1 2 Committee, 82 nursing and nurses, 72 Preston, 35, 48, 53 Nuttall, H. H , 108, 109, 110 Price, W. R., 104, 108 Index 195

Priestley, J. B., 123 Second World War, 65, 70, 71, 74, Privy Council, 15 78,119,120,121,122,127, probate records, 37-38 137 Probation Office, 74 Seebohm Committee on Local procurations, 16 Authority and Allied Social proto-industrialisation, 37-38, 63 Services, 79 putting out system, 36, 53 Sefton, 139-42 St Helen’s church, 139 42 Queen Anne’s Bounty, 25 Sharp, Sir Percival, 111 sheep, 46, 54 Rathbone, Eleanor, 67, 72 Sheldon, Gilbert, archbishop of Ravenstonedale, 62 Canterbury, 3, 4, 8,17, 22, Renton, A. F. G., 122 24, 25, 26 Ribchester, 10,13 Shennan, Alfred, 87, 91, 101, 103, Richmond, 104,106,107,108,110, archdeacon/archdeaconry, 112,113,114,115,116, 14,16, 27, 28 118 Riley, D , 39, 52 Shevington, 41, 54 Ripon, 20 Shevington Moor, 45-46 Roberts, Aled O., 129 Shute, Sir John, 102,107,109 Rochdale, 19 Simey, Margaret, 66 Rochester, bishop/bishopric of, Simey, T. S., 75, 83 10 Simon, Sir John, 122 Rochester, earl of, 21 Sinclair, Archibald, 131 Rossendale, 37, 61, 63 Skip ton, 138 Rothwell family, 139 Social Science, Royal Air Force, 133 certificate/diploma in, 72, Russell, Richard, 121,122,124, 75, 76, 77, 78 125,126,127,128,129, Social Services Departments, 79 132 social work, social workers and their training, 65-84 Sackville tomb, 141 souring, 57 St Bees, 12 spinning and weaving, 54-56, 60, Salomon, Alice, 67 61 Sancroft, William, archbishop of Standish, 35-63 Canterbury, 8, 22 Standish Wood, 42 Sanderson, Robert, bishop of Stanhope, lord, 87, 88 Lincoln, 24 Stanley, lord, 125 sanitary inspectors, 66 Stevenson, Thomas, 127, 128 schools, 73, 85-120 Stringer, Peter, 4 Schwarz, S., 37 student grants, 74 Seare, Edmund, 29 Sudbury, 133 196 Index

Surrey, archdeacon/archdeaconry, Wall, G. W., 140 20, 29 Wallasey, 13, 18 synodals, 16 Walton, Bryan, Bishop of Chester, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,10, tanners and tanning, 42, 53, 60 11,13,15,18,19,24, 25 Tarporley, 135 Walton, J. K., 36, 63 Tarrant Hinton, 141 Welch Whittle, 54 teaching and teachers, 69 Westhanpuett, 141 tenths, 25 West Indies, 74, 75 Teviot, lord, 131,132 wheat, 46, 50, 51 textiles and textile manufacturing, White, Sir Thomas, 87, 96,108, 36, 38, 53-60, 61 112 Thompson, councillor, 107 Who’s Who, 129 Tibboles, John, 13 Wigan, 7, 8, 20, 23, 27, 35, 36, 48, tied cottages, 134 60 Tillotson, John, archbishop of The Boar’s Head, 51 Canterbury, 9 Wilkins, John, bishop of Chester, timber and carpentry, 42-44, 53, 4, 5, 8, 9 ,1 3 ,1 4 ,1 6 ,1 8 ,2 0 , 60, 61 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 Tomkinson, C. W , 126,127 Wilkinson, Andrew, 17 Traynor, monsignor, 89, 93, 94, Wilkinson, Charles, 17 97, 99,113,116,118 Williams, Harold Heathcote, 129, Trelawney, Jonathan, 21 130,132,133 Tupling, G. H., 37, 38, 61 wills and inventories, 37-38, 39 Turner, Francis, bishop of Ely, 21 Winchester, bishop/bishopric, 5 Twitchett, canon, 93,118 Windsor, 25 Women’s University Settlement, UCCA/UCAS forms, 73 Southwark, 67 United States of America, 69 Woodlock, J. M , 97 Wrexham, 129 Venables, Sir Peter, 4 Venice, 9 York, 12 Victoria Settlement for Women, York, archbishop/archbishopric 66, 67 of, 2,10, 18, 27 Consistory Court, 2 Wainwright, John, 6 Waite, Thomas, 15, 28 Younghusband, Eileen, 68, 69, 70, Wales, 73 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, Walker, F., 45 84