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Wavrington ; and , as the congregations where he might preach as a candidate were not then so entirely Unitarian as they now arc , this circumstance would prove a bar to his acceptable ness as a preacher with them . At an early period he relinquished preaching altogether , supposing it injurious to his health ; and , having formed this resolution , he
could never afterwards he prevailed on to preach for any one , excepting once , upwards of twenty years since , for the writer of this , during a severe indisposition . It was some few years after giving up preaching that he went to the Isle of Man as private tutor to some of the younger sons of the late Mr . Busk , who then resided there in some official
capacity . He continued in this situation about two years . Soon after his return from the isle of Man , his father dying , he became the farmer of his own leasehold estate ; which occupation he followed several years in connexion with the tuition of a limited number of dayscholars . But , about the year 1802 , in consequence of the great age of his
mother , whose increasing infirmities required much of his attention , and the urgency of his friends to increase the number of his pupils , he let his farm and confined himself solely to tuition . This also he relinquished about ten years afterwards , and theii reading and study became his chief occupation , which he followed with avidity and delight until a short period previous to his
decease . During the time that Mr . Horrox was a student at the academy at Warriugton , from attending the lectures that were occasionally delivered there 011 Chemistry and Anatomy , he became aidently attached to the profession of medicine , and he endeavoured to pre- - vail on his father to permit him to change the object of his pursuit ; but to this he would not consent . — His last
illness was short , but it was severe . Having taken cold during the wet season at the end of November last , it brought on a violent inflammation on his lungs , which admitted not of any remedy , and he soon sunk under it . Thus died this excellent and amiable man . He has left a legacy of £ 200 to the College at York , and another of ^ 100 to the Dissenting Chapel in Chowbent . B . K . D .
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Rev . Thomas Horrox . 1827 . Dec . 9 , in the neighbourhood of Chowbent , Lancashire , in the 77 th year of his age , the Rev . Thomas Horrox . The deceased was a man of considerable literary attainments , but of rather singular habits ; these habits , however , were all inoffensive in themselves , and only indicated that he thought and acted differently from the generality of men in his rank and statiou of life * Ever since the death of his mother , in the year 1804 , ( who died at the advanced age of 92 years , ) he lived alone , in a cottage , on a small leasehold farm which he possessed , without any attendant , mixing lktle with society , but always cheerfully receiving and hospitably entertaining those friends who were iu the habit of visiting him in his retirement . Though fond of this seclusion from society , yef , when occasionally drawn from it , no man appeared more to enjoy the comuauy of his friends , or more cheerfully contributed his portion of instruction or entertainment . He received the rudiments of his classical learning at Rivincton school , in this neighbourhood .
Hence he removed to the academy then at Warrington , according to the list of Warrington students given by Mr . Tur » ner , of Newcastle , in the Repository , Vol . IX . p . 387 , No , 164 , in the year 1768 . In this accouut Mr . Turner represents him as preaching , as a settled minister , for a short time , at Holcombe , near Bury , in this couuty ; as afterwards spending some time in the Isle
of Man , apd dying young . From the secluded manner in which Mr . Horrox passed the greater part of his life , and hearing nothing of him for many years , it is not surprising that Mr . Turner should infer that he must have died young . 1 am also inclined to believe that he was never settled as a minister at Holcombe . Ou leaving the academy at Warriugton , in 1773 , he resided with his parents iu this neighbourhood , and was almost constantly engaged for a year or two in preaching at different places , some of which might be without Mettled ministers ; but I believe he was never settled at any place as a permanent minister . One reason why Mr . Horrox might not acquire a permanent situation was , that he was decidedly a Unitarian iu his religious sentiments from the time of his leaving the academy at
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/53/
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