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of them , Nprton Hall , the Park / Demesne aud Manor , were assigned to Mr . and Mrs . Shore . The younger daughter became the wife of Francis Edmonds , Esq ., of Worsborough . Norton Hall , which thus became the
seat of Mr . Shore , was , m its ancient state , one of the picturesque old houses of our country gentiy of the higher order , of which so few remain in this neighbourhood . Some portions of it were of very high antiquity . Others appeared to have been built about the first
of the Stuart reigns $ and some of the best apartments had been added by the Offleys . There was a fine old entrancehall with a gallery , and in this room the Nonconformists of Norton BDd the neighbourhood had been long accustomed to assemble for public worship , and continued to do so in the time of Mr . Shore .
Great improvements have since been made in the house and grounds ; and a chapel has been erected at a little distance from the mansion , in which , so long as he was able , Mr . Shore was duly to be seen a devout and humble worshiper . During the life of Mrs . Shore , Norton Hall was their constant
residence . She died there in 1781 ; and when some years after , Mr . Shore ' s eldest son had married , Norton Hall became his residence ; and Mr . Shore took up his abode at Meersbrook , which had been the seat of his father , at a short distance from the village of Norton , where the remainder of his life was passed , and where he died .
The public life of Mr . Shore began early ; for as long ago as the year 1761 , he served the office of High Sheriff of the County of Derby . He acted for some time in the Commission of the Peace ; but having never qualified , according to the terms imposed by the now happily abrogated Test Act , nor being willing to qualify , he retired from
the commission , and resumed , so far , a private station . His public services are , therefore , rather to be looked for in what could be done by a truly conscientious Nonconformist , and his rewards not so much in public honours as in the jucundte recordationes of his own mind . To the place of his birth he was always
a liberal benefactor . Our . infirmary and our schools were the constant objects of his attention and his bounty . When there was any peculiar pressure of distress , his hand was always open . When projects were devised for the general benefit of our population , Mr . Shore evinced that he had inherited the fortune and public spirit of his fathers . He was
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a member of the trusts of most of the old societies of Nonconformists in this neighbourhood , and one to whom , in all affairs of importance , especial deference was wont to be paid . He was also , through his Whole life , a very active member of trusts connected with Nonconformity , and embracing higher objects than the interests of particular societies ; and , in particular , in the twist of the Hollis charity in which this town
so largely participates ; aftd-aa that etili more important trust to which- < are committed the lands bequeathed by the relict of Sk John Hewley , of Y ^ rk , for the education of ministers , and the support of Dissenting worship i& the North -of England , he was , through life , a very active and efficient member . T ? o the No neon farm is t body of England he was , indeed , an invaluable friend—one who was ever attentive to its interests—one
who could represent it with dignity on all occasions—and by whom , perhaps , more than by any ot&er private individual , it became connected with public men , and with those in high stations who are called to legislate respecting it . The mind of Mr . Shore was , through life , earnestly directed upon means for affording suitable opportunities for education to the ministers and those of the
Dissenting youth at large , for whom more was required than was presented in the ordinary schools . The Dissenting academies at Warrington , at Hackney , and at York , were , in succession , objects of his constant solicitude and his liberal bounty . He belonged to that class of Nonconformists long called
Presbyterians , almost the only class formerly known in the counties of York and Derby . The right of religious inquiry which that body hacLalways main- * - tained , and the duty of making ati open profession of principles , which had passed from opinions into the class of demonstrated truths which had been
always enforced by its ministers , had produced , in the early years of Mr . Shore ' s life , a material change from the doctrinal opinions of the founders of Presbyterian Nonconformity . In these changes Mr . Shore had gone with the body with which he was connected , if it may not rather be said that his
enlightened and Inquiring mind shewed to others the track of truth as it is laid open by the proper use and better knowledge of the Holy Scriptures ; and that hia fearless and independent spirit , his deep feeling of the importance of religious truth , his souse of the duty of making an open profession of it , did not animate
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68 Obituary . —~ Samuel Shore , Ksq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/68/
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