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Rh any rate commended itself to me, and gives me entire confidence in introducing him to the Church people of Rochdale.” And the Bishop's opinion was warmly seconded by the people of Burnley, for, on taking his departure, the erstwhile vicar took with him a cabinet, timepiece, silver epergne and other ornaments, besides £50 worth of books, as mementoes of the affection his former parishioners bore him, Mrs Maclure and the family. The Free Lance voted him the most zealous clergyman in the whole Diocese. “Unlike his brother,” the writer proceeded, “Mr Parson Maclure is a thorough-going Liberal, and looks with horror on the Conservative perversity of Mr John William Maclure, and there are people who say that the Bishop's real object in making the appointment is a prospective conversion of Mr ‘Non-parson’ Maclure to Liberalism…. We rather prefer that the brothers Maclure should go on their way as they are going, seeking honourable promotion, and possibly when Mr J. W. Maclure becomes Prime Minister of England, he may sink political differences and make his brother an Archbishop!” The reference is an amusing one, showing that the brothers were regarded—and rightly—as being quite inseparable.

At Rochdale, Canon Maclure applied himself zealously to the work of Church extension, and materially assisted in the promotion of elementary, secondary and technical education, and other