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78 of Holy Trinity, Habergham Eaves, Burnley. There he laboured for thirteen years, with rare tact and good sense, promoting better parochial organisation, increasing school accommodation, and enlarging the church. Through his instrumentality above £20,000 were raised and devoted to Church purposes, including the formation of two new parishes and the building of two new churches. It was while at Burnley that Mr Maclure seriously threw himself into the cause of education, being thrice elected Chairman of the Burnley School Board. A year after his call to Holy Trinity, Habergham Eaves, he acted as Chaplain to the High Sheriff of the county, Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth. His moderate Church views, good preaching and sturdy adherence to the cause of Church and State rendered him a popular vicar. His work generally seemed specially to commend itself to the late Bishop Eraser, who, on the death of Dr Molesworth, in 1877, offered Mr Maclure the important living of Rochdale (worth some £1,500 per annum), and in quick succession an Hon. Canonry of Manchester and the Rural Deanery of Rochdale.

At the service of induction at Rochdale, Bishop Eraser commended the new vicar to the congregation in these terms:—“I believe your new vicar has shown wisdom and faithfulness, patience and zeal in his former post, and he has followed after the things that make for peace in a way that has at