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Rh School. Edward Craig, preferring Holy Orders (while his brother fostered ambitions in the commercial world) obtained an exhibition and was elected Somerset scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he afterwards became one of Hulme's exhibitioners. While at Oxford his reputation as an oarsman brought him within an ace of representing his alma mater in the University contest at Putney. As it was, he rowed No. 5 in the Brasenose eight, then at the head of the river; but the pleasure obtained from this hardly compensated for the loss sustained in the academic direction. A serious accident to his hand, contracted in training for the college eight, hindered him from going in for honours in the final schools. However, he took his B.A. and afterwards proceeded to the M.A. degree.

On leaving Oxford young Maclure was ordained by Dr Pepys, Bishop of Worcester, to the curacy of St John's, Ladywood, near Birmingham. Thence, in 1860, he succeeded to the senior curacy of St Pancras, London, under the Rev. Canon Champneys, better known in later years as the Dean of Lichfield. Notwithstanding a lapse of years, the heads of his old college still thought well enough of Mr Maclure to offer him the college living of St Philip's, Stepney, but, in hope of a call to his beloved Lancashire, this was respectfully declined. The realisation of his hopes came in 1863, when he was appointed by the Hulme trustees to the