WORTHIES OF LEEDS.

BIOGRAPHIA LEODIENSIS;

OR,

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF THE

WORTHIES OF LEEDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD,

From the Norman Conquest to the Present Time;

COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES, AND ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

WITH AN

INTRODUCTION ON THE STUDY OF BIOGRAPHY

AND COPIOUS INDEXES.

BOD

BY THE

REV. R. V. TAYLOR, B.A.,

CURATE OF ST. BARNABAS', HOLBECK;

Late of King's College, London; and formerly an Assistant Master in the Leeds Grammar School, &c.

"The worth of a State in the long run is the worth of the individuals

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

LEEDS: JOHN HAMER, 7, BRIGGATE.

MDCCCLXV.

"DEO, PATRIE, AMICIS.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

THESE

"BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE WORTHIES OF

LEEDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD,"

ARE, BY PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY

Dedicated to

EDWARD BAINES, Esq., M.P.;

GEORGE SKIRROW BEECROFT, Esq., M.P.;

THE REV. CANON ATLAY, D.D., VICAR;

THE REV. WILLIAM GEORGE HENDERSON, D.C.L.,
HEAD-MASTER OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL;

JOHN BLOSSET MAULE, ESQ., RECORDER ;

JOHN DARNTON LUCCOCK, Esq., MAYOR;

OBADIAH NUSSEY, Esq., EX-MAYOR;

JOSEPH OGDIN MARCH, ESQ., LATE EX-MAYOR;

BY THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE COMPILER.