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82 But Bishop Moorhouse's selection of him for the latter post was primâ facie evidence of his confidence in him, and augured well for the existence of happy relations between Bishop and Dean, relations which, as a matter of fact, have always been most happily maintained since. At one move, it will be seen, there became vacant the Archdeaconry of Manchester, the Rural Deanery of Rochdale, an Hon. Canonry and the living of Rochdale. The choice of the Bishop fell upon the Rev. James Maurice Wilson, the distinguished headmaster of Clifton College, who became at once Vicar of Rochdale and Archdeacon of Manchester.

Dean Maclure's appointment was the subject of unlimited comment, which is not to be greatly wondered at, for it afforded one of the few examples of a parish priest stepping straightway into the Deanery of his own Diocese. By this time the new Dean had won for himself a reputation as a judicious “High Churchman,” but more especially as a hard and strong-minded worker.