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    time , principal tutor , a gentleman equally distinguished by his learning and piety ; and for -whose memory his pupil , the subject of thismemoir , always expressed the highest veneration . He was also upon terms of very considerable intimacy during his academical course of studies , and particularly in the latter part of it ,

    with the late Dr . Priestley , who was then a tutor in the department of languages and belles leitresy in the Warrington Academy , and assisted him materially in some parts of the Rudiments of English Grammar , "which the Dr . published about this period , particularly in collecting the examples of false grammatical construction whibh are given in it from Hume and other authors of

    established celebrity . ' ' In the summer of 1768 , the Rev . Tho . Barnes , for so he was now become , left the Academy ; having- gone through his course of studies there with great honour , to himself , and given full satisfaction to his tutors , both by his general behaviour and

    by his proficiency in all those branches of learning ^ o -which his attention had been directed , and which are usually studied by candidates for the ministry , among the Protestant Dissenters of this kingdom , in their most respectable seminaries of education . His first settlement

    in the ministry , which took place immediately upon his leaving the Academy , was at Cockey Moor , near Bolton , in his native county ; and , in the following year , he was there regularly set apart to the sacred office by ordination , for which service he continued through life a strenuous advocate . From his first entrance

    upon the work of the Christian ministry he applied to the discharge of its important duties with uncommon zeal and diligence , and his labours were crowned with correspondent success . During his continuance at Cockey Moor , which was dearly x % years , the congregation was much more than doubled , probably more

    than trebled , in the number of its members under his pastoral care ; and he was an eminently useful labourer in the vineyard of his master , though in a plain country situation . In May , i 78 o , he removed to Manchester , and became connected there , in the pastoral relation ,

    With one of the largest , most wealthy ^ nd respectable congregation s among the ^ rotcstant Dissen ter ^ , of what is called " 10 Presbyterian denomination in this ¦ angdom ; and i * this connection he continued , during a period of thirty years ,

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    to the time of his death . Here also hfc proved himself a faithful , zealous , and affectionate pastor , and was held in very high estimation , not only by the people of his immediate charge , but also by the inhabitants of the town in general , Hi * regular duty only called him to perform

    one public service on the sabbath ; but , not long after his settlement in Manchester , in the winter of 1782 , he voluntarily undertook an evening service or lecture , which soon began to be very numerously attended , and which he regularly continued every sabbath evening , in the winter season , till the declining state of

    his health , in conjunction with the circumstance of his having the whole re * gular duty of the congregation ? devolved upon him , through the indisposition of his colleague , induced his friends , about the middle of last winter ^ to insist upon hi * either declining the lecture , or having assistance procured for him in the other parts of the duty , in which circumstances he chose the former alternative , think *

    ing it the more expedient measure upon the whole , though the evening lecture was his favourite service , and that which he thought more useful than any other which he performed . It has , for several years past , been attended by an audience amounting to upwards of aooo in

    number , consisting chiefly of respectable , se < rious , and attentive hearers , ^ of different denominations of religious professors . In the beginning of the year 1784 , the subject of this Memoir had the degree of D-D . conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh , upon the vo * luntary , and , on his part , unsought re * commendation of friends who were well

    able to appreciate his literary attain * ments , and whose testimonial to theni , consequently , reflected upon him great honour . Of this measure the late Dr , Perceval was the principal promoter . Not long after this , the Rev . Dr . Barneft , was induced , by the solicitations of his

    friends , to undertake , in conjunction with his colleague in the pastoral office , the Rev . Ralph Harrison , the important charge of an academical institution in Manchester , upon which he entered in the summer of the year 1786 , and

    over which he presided as principal , with great credit to himself and utility to the public , till the year 1798 , when he determined to resign it , in consequence of the difficulty which he had , for sometime , experienced in maintaining , in so large a town as Manchester , where

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    Obituctrin—Rev . Dr . Barnes , 409

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/33/