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PERPETUAL CURATES AND VICARS OF HOLY TRINITY. +++- Date of    |             |     On whose         |Cause of Vacancy. Institution.|                 |     Presentation. | +++-  1837	    |G. F. Greene,    |J. Talbot Clifton,esq.| | M.A.            |                      | 1841	   |John Edwards      |        Ditto. |Resignation of           |                  |                      | G. F. Greene 1845    |C. K. Dean       |        Ditto. |Resignation of           |                  |                      | J. Edwards 1848    |T. B. Banner,    |        Ditto. |Resignation of           |  M.A.            |                      | C. K. Dean 1853    |J. B. Wakefield  |        Ditto. |Resignation of           |                  |                      | T. B. Banner 1870    |J. Ford Simmons, |        Ditto. |Resignation of           |  M.A.            |                      | J. B. Wakefield +++-

There is now an ecclesiastical parochial district attached to the church, of which the incumbent is the vicar.

On Thursday, the 24th of March, 1869, the corner stone of a Wesleyan chapel in Rawcliffe Street, built at the sole expense of Francis Parnell, esq., of South Shore, who subsequently added the schools, was laid by Mrs. Parnell, wife of the donor. For four or five years the members of this denomination had met on the Sabbath in a small room in Bolton Street, originally designed for a coach-house, and the necessity for more suitable and extended accommodation through growing numbers had of late pressed urgently upon the limited and not over wealthy assembly, so that the generous offer of their townsman was gratefully appreciated. The structure is in the Gothic style of architecture, about fifty feet in length and forty feet in width, with brick walls and stone facings, and will contain upwards of three hundred persons. Service was first held in the new place of worship, styled the Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, on Thursday, the 2nd of September, 1869, the officiating minister being the Rev. W. H. Taylor, of Manchester. The room in Bolton Street was subsequently converted into a Temperance Hall, and remained in that capacity until the 30th of March, 1873, when it was appropriated as a meeting-house by the Baptist sect. The progress of South Shore has not until the last two or three years been marked by that wonderful rapidity which has already been