Notes and Queries NORMAN ANGELL Caleb Birchall of Stockport, and "Norman Angell and The was born in 1761. At Leeds, great illusion: an episode in pre- 6 vi 1785, Samuel Birchall, of 1914 pacifism", by Howard Stockport, linen draper, married Weinroth (McGill University), in Anna Jowitt. His death is re­ the Historical Journal, vol. 17, corded, d. 17 v 1814, aged 53 no. 3 (1974), PP- 551-574, has years, Samuel Birchall of Leeds something to say about relations woolstapler, buried 22 v 1814, at between Norman Angell and the Camp Lane Court, Leeds. older pacifist and socialist move­ ments working in the same field. GEORGE BISHOP, d. 1668 The author quotes from Labour Professor G. E. Aylmer's The Leader articles by J. T. Walton state's servants: the civil service of Newbold in 1913. The reader the English republic, 1649-1660 should not be put off by the (Routledge, 1973. £8) devotes a knighthood vicariously attribu­ couple of pages to a summary of ted to Joseph Rowntree. the known career of George Bishop, secretary to the Com­ JAMES BARRETT mittee for Examinations in 1650 A History of Hale, Cheshire, and in other Whitehall posts by R. N. Dore (1972) includes until 1653 when he appears to the following note in a paragraph have returned to Bristol. He was on nonconformity: an unsuccessful candidate in the 11 In 1778 a lone Quaker was parliamentary election in the city recorded at Ringway, James in the summer of 1654 anc^ Barrett, who according to his immediately after makes his great-grandson, Fletcher Moss, mark as leader among Friends came from the Wilmslow area in the district, and continued as in the early 17703 and built such until his death. There is a Wicker House/' brief notice of him in Bristol D. J. HALL Record Society's publications, vol. 26, p. 194-5. Not all of SAMUEL BIRCHALL (1761-1814) Professor Aylmer's references The appearance of the name of refer to the same man, since the Samuel Birchall in a list of name is not uncommon. members of the printing and book trade in Leeds in the i8th GEORGE BRANTINGHAM century in Elizabeth Parr's Leeds George Brantingham is men­ M. Phil, thesis (1973) on "Early tioned (p. 80) in the course of Leeds Printers" (p. 179) brings "Abolitionists and abolitionism to notice Samuel Birchall's in Aberdeen: a test case for the Alphabetical list of provincial nineteenth-century anti-slavery copper-coins or tokens, 1796. movement'' by G. Duncan Rice, There is a biography of Samuel an article in Northern Scotland: Birchall in R. V. Taylor, Leeds a historical journal, published by worthies, p. 253. He was son of the Centre for Scottish Studies, 265 266 NOTES AND QUERIES University of Aberdeen, vol. i, FORD FAMILY, OF LEEDS no. i, December 1972, pp. 65-87. Ann Thwaite, in her Waiting for the party. The life of Frances JOHN BRIGHT Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924 John Blight's hand in the (London, Seeker & Warburg, Irish Land Bill of 1870 and the 1974), mentions the acquain­ events which led up to it, are tanceship between Mrs. Hodgson effectively studied by E. D. Burnett and Vernon Lee (Violet Steele in Irish Land and British Paget) in Florence in the i88os politics; tenant-right and nation­ and Vernon Lee's interest in ality, 1865-1870 (Cambridge F.H.B's early book That lass University Press, 1974). o'Gowrie's (published 1877) set in a Lancashire mining village. Reference is made to Vernon JOHN DALTON, F.R.S. Lee's visits to "the rich and "Mr. Dalton is open, very philanthropic Fords of Adel ingenious, and certainly a most Grange near Leeds, who were extraordinary man." So wrote much concerned with the con­ Friedrich Mohs (mineralogist, dition of women employed in the 1773-1839) after meeting John mills1 ' and to the fact that Emily Dalton in Manchester in 1818 Ford [Emily Susan Ford, 1850- (letter in the Pollok Morris MSS. 1930, dau. of Robert Lawson Edinburgh, quoted in the course (1809-78) and Hannah (1814-86, of articles on "The Henrys of n&e Pease) Ford] had taken her Manchester" by W. V. and to see the night school, started Kathleen R. Farrar and E. L. by the Fords, very like the one Scott in Ambix, vol. 21, p. 195). set up by a character in F.H.B.'s Mohs met Dalton most likely book. at the house of William Henry (1774-1836), and there is a con­ siderable study of the scientific collaboration and interests which the two shared (pp. 208-228). DR. JOHN FOTHERGILL Chain of Friendship', selected letters of Dr. John Fothergill of DARBY FAMILY London, 1735-1780. With intro­ A good general account in The duction and notes by Betsy C. Darbys of Coalbrookdale by Barrie Corner and Christopher C. Booth. Trinder (Phillimore, 1974. ^i.oo) (Belknap Press of Harvard Uni­ mainly aimed at the growing versity Press, 1971.) number of interested enquirers A substantial and solid piece who visit this classical spot of the of work, much to be commended. Industrial Revolution. There are The editors betray some lack of diagrams, maps, illustrations and appreciation of the English pro­ a family tree. vincial scene, but this is more than redeemed by Christopher MADELEINE HOPE DODDS Booth's sensitive photograph of "Madeleine Hope Dodds, 1885- Carr End, Yorkshire—showing it 1972", an obituary by Ruth for what it is, not the stock­ Dodds appears in Archaeologia broker's place in the Sussex Aeliana, 5th series, vol. i (1973), Downs, but a working farm-place pp. 223-4. in a Yorkshire dale. NOTES AND QUERIES 267 JOSHUA GILPIN George R. Chapman has 4 'An American in Gloucester­ searched Friends' sources and shire and Bristol: the diary of recounts what is known of Joshua Gilpin, 1796-7", by A. P. George Gregson's sufferings, and Woolrich, reproduces Gloucester­ indicates his service for Friends shire entries from the diaries of in Lisburn and Ireland. At his Joshua Gilpin, papermaker and own expense George Gregson Friend, concerning his English built the first Friends' meeting journey. The notebooks which house in Lisburn "a small plain survive are preserved in the thatched building in his back Pennsylvania State Archives, garden, with an entrance from Harrisburg, Pa. They show that Schoolroom Lane (now Railway Joshua Gilpin was interested in Street)". This building escaped industrial processes and com­ destruction in the great fire of mercial affairs, and he seems to Lisburn in 1707. A copy of his have had little difficulty in will is preserved among Friends' collecting information which he records at Lisburn Meeting House, wanted. and it records a bequest to "Poor (Transactions of the Bristol Friends in the County of Lan­ and Gloucestershire A rchaeological caster where I was born". Society, vol. 92 (1973), pp. 169- George Chapman has presented 189.) a copy of the article, and it is in At Cheltenham, 25 July, 1796, Friends House Library. he "Called on a gentleman name of Rich, a Quaker; but 2 families GRIGG OF MILNTHORPE in the town. 0 "The domestic economy of the On 12 February, 1797, he Lakeland yeoman, 1660-1749." arrived in Bristol, and records By J. D. Marshall (Transactions his movements until the I7th. of the Cumberland 6- Westmorland He put up at the White Lion in Antiquarian & Archaeological Broad Street, and called on Society, vol. 73 New series, 1973, Edward Harford (1720-1806). pp. 190-219), traces from many This began a busy time of visiting surviving records the farming Harfords, Lloyds, Warings, Dr. activities of the yeoman or Fox and Joseph Storrs Fry. He statesman in the Lake District. went to see "Champion's mach­ Few farmers probably had as inery for rolling lead", the Brass many as the fifteen or twenty Company, and Blaise Castle. pigs as the inventory of 1673 allows one to ascribe to John Grigg of Milnthorpe, "a member GEORGE GREGSON, d. 1690 of an outstandingly resourceful " Unpublished seventeenth- Quaker family". John's son, century tokens of Lisburn, co. Joseph, "was one of Westmor­ Antrim" by G. R. Chapman and land's leading entrepreneurs." W. A. Seaby (Seaby's Coin (S* Documents are quoted from medal bulletin, Nov. 1973, no. The Household account book of 663> pp. 394-6) records what is Sarah Fell (edited by Norman known of George Gregson, issuer Penney, 1920). of a copper token, 1659, of which a unique copy is in the Numis­ GURNEY MANUSCRIPTS matic collection at the Ulster The List and Index Society, Museum, Belfast. Special series, volume 6, consists 268 NOTES AND QUERIES of a List and index of Gurney Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 101, Manuscripts at the Friends House part i, 1971, pp. 41-52) records Library, London, 1973, which the life and work of John reproduces a typescript of the Hancock who left ^1,000 for the Synopsis of the Gurney manu­ founding of Friends' School, scripts deposited in the Library Lisburn. The account is livelv,^ * of the Religious Society of and deals largely with John Friends. Prepared by Arthur J. Hancock's Quaker upbringing, Eddington in 1933, and subse­ which contributed lastingly to quently revised by him and his attitudes to life and social others. (Published and printed and political problems even after by Swift (P. & D.) Ltd., London. he severed his ties with the ^4.90.) This is a valuable key to Society of Friends. "For John a major manuscript collection. Hancock religion was a quality A less sedulous dedication to of life, not obedience to the forms shortened titles might help the of church membership." unaware; for instance "Opie, We are grateful to Bancroft p.