PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. HOME RULE UNION. BURGESSES AND PARLIAMENTARY Branch. VOTERS IN THE BOROUGH. President-Mr. Waiter Sugden, Manchester road. Burgesses. Pa1·lrnty. T1·easn1·er-Mr. Riley Bower, 6 Gaythorne road, West 1890-1. 1891. Bowling. East Ward...... 2858 • •• 2438 Corresponding Secretary-Mr. Edward Hatton, 85 Exchange Ward ...... 2312 ... 2093 North Ward...... 2392 .. . 1930 Fitzwilliam street, West Bowling. 21'23 Financial Secretary.-Mr. S. Shaftoe, 7 Ripleyterrrce, SouthWard...... • • • ... 2519 ••• Ripleyville. West Ward...... 2921 • • • 2330 Established in 1887 for the purpose of supporting the Bradford :Moor Ward • • • ... 3124 ... 2651 Irish nation in its demand for Home Rule, and of East Bowling Ward ...... 3040 ••• 2522 assisting to bring about such a settlement of the Irish West Bow ling Ward ...... 3194 ... 2731 difficulty as shall satisfy the Irish people without Ward • • • ... 2969 .. . 2412 infringing the rights of the Crown or the integrity of Listerbills Ward ...... 3659 ••• 2941 the Empire. Ward ...... 2888 ... 2313 Manningham Ward ...... 4137 ... 3343 Bolton Ward ...... 1477 . .. 1285 PRIMROSE LEAGUE. Heaton Ward ...... 2911 ... 2398 Established 1887. Allerton Ward ...... 1738 .. . 1490 ThiEt organisation has over 4000 members, and its Totals ...... 42,139 ... 35,000 district comprises the area of the three Parliamentary divisions of Bradford, and the North Bierley district of The three Parliamentary divisions of Bradford set forth in the sixth schedule to the Redistribution of the Shipley division. Thet~e are divided as follows:- Seats Act, 1885, include the whole of the municipal Bective Habitation ...... West Bradford. borough, and do not extend beyond its confines. 'l'he East Bradford...... East Bradford. Western Division comprises Manningham, Heaton, Disraeli ...... Central Bradford. Allerton, Bolton, and Great Horton Wards, the Hardy ...... North Bierley. aggregate electorate of which is 10,928, of whom, how­ ever, 574 persons with double qualifications in the borough are starred to vote in other divisions, the BRADFORD WOMEN'S LIBERAL actual number of voters in the division therefore being 10,354. The Central Division includes Listerhills, West, ASSOCIATIONS. North, Little Horton, and Exchange Wards ; and the President for Bradford Central-Lady Constance electors of the division number 11,607, of whom 973 Shaw-Lefevre. are starred to vote elsewhere, thus reducing the number President for Bradford West-Mrs. Alfred Illingworth. of actual voters to10,634. TheEasternDivision includes President for Bmdford East-Mrs. Wm. lllingworth. the East, South, , East Bowling, and A Joint Executive of 19 Members. WestBowlingWards. Of its12,465voters only174are Treasurer-Miss Gregory, 12 W almer V1llas. starred to vote in the other divisions, so that the actual Hon. Sec1·etary-1rfrs.W. Pollard Byles, Oakfield. number of possible voters is 12,291.

CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES. CHURCH OF . BRADFORD PARISH UHURCH (St. Peter's).-The present edifice was erected on the site of a church built soon Diocese of Ripon. after the Conquest, and was completed about 1458; the tower fifty years afterwards. The interior of the Bishop-Right Rev. Wm. Boyd Carpenter, D.D. church was re-arranged in 1705 in pursuance of a Residence-The Palace, Ripon. commission granted in that year by Archbishop Bishop Su:ffragan of Richmond-Right Rev. J. J. Sharp, a native of Bradford. The old bells were Pulleine, D.D. re-cast in 1715, the church was re-roofed in 1724, Secretaries-F. D. Wise, Ripon; J. L. Bee, West­ three new galleries were erected in 1785, 1786, and minster, S. W. 1797, during the incumbency of the Rev. John Registrars - T. Greenwood Teale, Leeds; Francis Crosse. In 1833 the church was fronted with free­ D. Wise, Ripon. stone and re-slated. A new peal of ten bells was Acting Registrar for Archdeaconry of Graren - T. adgistry, Trustees. N nmber of sittings, 1600, which are mostly Ripon. appropriated. The registers of baptisms commence Dean-Very Rev. W. R. Fremantle, D.D. in 1599, and contain, in addition to those solemnized A1·chdeacon of Graven-V en. W. Boyd, M. A. at the Parish Church, entries of baptisms solemnized Chancellor of the Diocese-'l'he Worshipful T. H. at Holy Trinity Church, Low Moor, and St. James's, Tristram, D.O.L., Q.O. Thornton. The registers of marriages commence in Surreyor of Ecclesiastiral Dilapidations-Cbas. R. 1596, and also the registers of burials. The awards Ohorley, 15, Park row, Leeds. of the Tithe Commissioners for the respective town· ships in the parish of Bradford, excepting i also copies of the enclosure awards of the townships of Allerton, Eccleshill, and Heaton, are in the care Churches in Bradford. of the Parish Clerk' N.B.-Churches the names of which are marked Vicar, Rev. Joseph Bardsley, D.D., the Vicarage, with an asterisk (*)were erected under the auspices of Horton road. the Bradford Church Building Society, instituted in Curates, Rev. J. C. Wright, M.A.; Rev. W. J, 1860 for the purpose of providing ten additional Newton, B.A.; Rev. J. Beanland, B. A..; Re-v. Churches in the borough of Bradford. H. J. Sockitt, B.A.; Rev. Joseph Bensley. 18