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Manchester College , Yorko The Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Trustees of this Institution was held at the Cross-Street Chapel Rooins 9 in Manchester , on Thursday , the 23 rd day of March last ; James Touchet , Esq ., in the chair .
After the usual routine business ^ the meeting proceeded to the appointment of officers for the ensuing year , when the following gentlemen were elected , viz . Samuel Shore , Jan ., Esq ., of Norton Hall , President 5 James To u diet , Esq ., Peter Martineau , Esq ., Daniel Gaskell , Esq ., Abraham Crouipton , Esq ., the Rev , John Yates , and the Rev , John Kentish ,
Vice-Presidents ; George William Wood , Esq ., Treasurer ; Thomas Robinson , Esq . Chairman of the Committee ; Mr . So D , Darbishire , and the Rev . J . Jo Tayler ^ Secretaries ; and Mr . Samuel Kay 5 and the Revo Robert Smethursr , of Stand , Auditors . The offices of visitors and public examiners continue to be filled * the former by the Rev . William Turner , and the Rev , Lant Carpenter , LL . D ., and the latter by the Rev , John Gooch
Robherds , and the Rev . Joseph Hutton , LL . D . Tlie Committee of the last year was reelected with the exception of Mr , Edward Baxter , Mr . Nathaniel Philips , and Mr . John Bentley , who are succeeded by Mr . Samuel Alcock , Mr . Richard Collins , and Mr . Daniel Lonsdale , all of Manchester * The Deputy-Treasurers were also
reelected * The number of students in the College during the last session was twenty-nine , viz . ten Lay Students , and nineteen Divinity Students ; of whom fourteen were on the foundation on full exhibitions , and three on lialf exhibitions ; two obi
the foundation of the Hackney Education Fund , and one on his own foundation . Six students completed their course of
education for the Christian ministry at the close of the session , viz . Messrs . Mitchelson , Beard , Brown , Wreford , Tagart , and Worthington , —of whom , Mr , Beard is settled as Minister at Green-Gate , Salford ; Mr . Brown , at Hull ; Mr . Tagart , at Norwich ; and Mr . Worthington * at Cross-Street , Manchester . Three candidates were admitted as Divinity Students on tSie foundation for the current session , and are now in the College , viz . Mr , William Gaskell , of Warriiigton , m the third year ; and Mr ' . Samuel ttachc , Jan ., of Bristol , and Mr ,
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Henry Wreford , brother to Mr * Wreford late a student in the College , in the firsi year . There are also nine Lay Students , The Trustees are happy to be able to make a satisfactory Report of the funds for the year 1824-5 , There is again & small Increase in the Annual Subscriptions . The Benefactions have been
considerable , amounting to 529 / . 5 so 0 ^ ., including a very liberal anonymous Donation of 246 t . by the hands of the Rev . W , J . Fox , of London ; another of i 00 / o from the late Mr . Thomas Jackson Wood , of Bury ; and three Donations of 50 /„ each , from the Rev . William Broadbens of Lalchford . near Warrington ; Samuel
Kennck , Esq ., of West Bromwich , and Abraham Crompton , Esq ., of Lune Villa , near Lancaster , the last being in aid of the purchase of the Oxclose Estate . Of Congregational Collections therehavebeen but four in the course of the year , amd the aggregate amount is only 93 / . 18 * . 6 d . The Contributions from Fellowship Funds amount to 27 L 10 s . Od .
The Trustees have the satisfaction of reporting the termination and successful result of the proceedings in the Court of Chancery , which were instituted in the year 1821 , for the purpose of establishing a Charitable Bequest of 5000 / ., bequeathed by the will of the late Samuel Joues *
Esq ., to several of the principal officers of the College , in trusty to appropriate the annual interest thereof in ttie augmentation of the salaries of Dissenting ministers ; a preference being given , in the distribution of the trust income , to such ministers as should have been
educated at the College . The payment of this Legacy to the Trustees named by Mr , Jones , was declined by his executors , on the plea that they could not safely make the payment , without being indemnified from risk by acting under the sanction of the Court of Chancery . It became necessary , therefore ^ for iMr . Jones's Trustees to file a bill in
Chancery against the executors , in order to render available Mr . Jones ' s benevolent ' intentions * This proceeding was accordingly adopted , Hinder the direction of the Committee , in the month of February , 1821 , and since that period the
cause has advanced through the usual stages , until its termination in the present year , when the Court finally established the charity intended to be founded by Mr . Jones . The Trustees lutve , under the direction of the Court ot
Chancery , invested the trust legacy m the public funds ; and the Committee understand that it is their intention to proceed , at the next York Annual Meeting of the College , to act in . the appropriation of the Income of the trust , according to . the intentions expressed m
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3 \ 2 Intelligence *—Manchester College , York
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zealously apply themselves to . carrying into effect the objects of the Association . "Mr . Eat . ont , the Father of the Unitarian Fund . " Mr . Eaton , returned thanks . "Mr . Richmond and the Stewards . " Mr , Richmond returned thanks .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/60/
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