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Rh John Ogden.

J. S. Ormerod.

R. Owen.

Benjamin Pearson.

William Perkins.

Robert N. Philips.

John Potter.

T. B. Potter.

Archibald Prentice.

Jonathan Rawson.

Henry Rawson.

William Rawson.

John Rawsthorne.

John Rostron.

John Shuttleworth.

S. H. Slack.

Robert Stuart.

Samuel Stocks.

Isaac Shimwell.

Abraham Smith.

John Standring.

James Thompson.

Charles Tysoe.

John Whitlow.

John Wilkinson.

Samuel Watts.

William Woodcock.

Absalom Watkin.

R. Webb.

George Wilson.

Richard Wilson.

W. B. Watkins.

T. H. Williams.

Henry Wadkin.

W. Wardleworth.

James Wigan.

P. F. Willert.

James Worthington.

This was a numerous committee but not more numerous than the movement required. It comprised not only men of the first station in our community, but a great many who, if they could not contribute largely to the funds of the Association, could contribute what was equally valuable, work—earnest, continuous, gratuitous work. The time was coming when, in addition to the staff of lecturers, there was to be a heavy staff of clerks, but never, perhaps, had there been any association where so large a portion of the labour to be performed was without other remuneration than the consciousness of discharging a duty. Occasionally circumstances arose that required instant attention and instant work, and, on these emergencies, it was not uncommon to see thirty or forty persons, for weeks together, coming at five or six o'clock in the morning, and labouring until midnight as closely and earnestly as if their own existence depended upon the swiftness of their pens; while the executive committee, which was also the executive committee of the League, meeting at ten in the morning, had their work often extended over the whole of the day. If, therefore, Manchester, by the vote of a congress of the various separate associations, had the honour of directing the movement, there fell to it the larger share of unremitting toil.