• · DEAN PARISH. 613 the Branthwaite estate was sold to .T. C. Curwen, Esq., of Workington, but it is now the property of Lord Leconfield. The customary tenants were enfranchised by General Skelton for a payment of eighty years' purchase. · . The village of Branthwaite is situated on the steep banks of the Marron. 4-! miles south-east of Workington. Branthu:aite Hall, the baronial residence of the Skeltons for many generations, is a venerable­ looking fabric, bearing a dense mantle of ivy, and now used as a. farm-house. It has been made the subject of a poem by William Hetherington, a local poet of some celebrity, who was born here in 1788. He followed the occupation of surveyor and valuer, and died in 1865. He was the author of several other pieces, none of which were of sufficient merit to earn for him more than local fame. ULLOCK. The area and population of this township have been returned in the parish. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture, and are collected in the hamlets of Ullock, Pardshaw, and Deanscales. At Dean Moor is a colliery, employing about 18 n1en anil producing 60 tons of coal per week. It consists of two shafts an air shaft and • an upcast shaft, and is sunk to the depth of 32 fathoms. Ullock villa.ge is situated on the Marron, at the southern extremity of the parish, 5~ miles S. W. by S. of Cockermouth. The Wesleyan chapel in the village is a. neat structure, erected at a cost of about £450, raised by subscription. The foundation was laid by Mr. Brown, of Holme Wood, on Good Friday, 1875. Pardsltaw, or Pardsey, is a small hamlet in this township, 4~ miles S.S.W. of Cocketmouth; and Paxdshaw Hall is another hamlet 4 miles S. by W. of the same town. There is here an ancient meeting house belonging to the Society of Friends, which is endowed with two estates, the rents of which are applied to the purposes of educa­ tion and the maintenance of poor Friends. Pardsey Cragg, it appears, was formerly '' a famous place for Quakers, being remote from any church;" and George Fox, their founder, speaks in his journal of two general meetings of the society being held here in 1057 and 1663. Dean Scales is a hamlet 3~ miles S.W. by S. of Cockermouth. The terminal portion of the name is one of many evidences of the presence of considerable numbers of Norsemen in Cumberland, who succeeded in engrafting much of their own language upon the Saxon. In Norse the word signifies a shealing or cattle shed, the full name thus signifying " the cattle sheds of Dean." The district around was formerly a common, where, doubtless, large numbers of cattle were pastured. It has since been enclosed and granted into tenancies. BIOGRAPHY. John Dalton, D.D., nn eminent divine and admired poet, WHB born at Dean Vicarage, where his father was rector, in 1709. He was eiucated at Queen's College, Oxford. After completing his college· course, he became tutor to .