Introduction
Burnett Tracy Preston biographies A-D
Burnett Tracy Preston biographies E-H
Burnett Tracy Preston biographies S-W
Thomas Jackson, 2, Bridge End Street, St. James’s Street, Burnley, and Ranxbow House, Lytham; son of James Tyson Jackson; born at Preston, Lancashire, January 21st, 1837; educated at Preston. Dental surgeon; Inventor of the Jackson Electric Furnace, Patented; member of the British Dental Association; member of the Odontological Society of Manchester; member of Burnley Town Council, 1889-91.
James Jackson, 2, Bridge End, St. James’s Street, Burnley, and 19, Carr Road, Nelson; son of Thomas Jackson; born at Preston, July 26th, 1863; educated at Carlton Road School, Burnley, and Alston College, near Longridge. Dental surgeon.
Thomas Jackson, Jun., 2, Bridge End, St. James’s Street, Burnley; son of Thomas Jackson; born at Preston, April 11th, 1866; educated at Carlton Road School, Burnley, and Owens College, Victoria Dental Hospital, and Manchester Royal Infirmary; obtained L.D.S.R.C.S. Edin., April, 1889. Honorary Dental Surgeon to Victoria Hospital for Burnley; Honorary Dental Surgeon to Home for Destitute Girls, Burnley; Dental Surgeon to Burnley Union Workhouse and Union Infirmary.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Riley Jolly, V.D., Harris Orphanage, Fulwood, Preston; son of the late John Jolly, of Ribby Cottage, Wrea Green, near Kirkham, and great-grandson of the late Rev. John Gibson, first Vicar of Lytham Parish Church; born at Wrea Green, February 23rd, 1849; educated at Ribby Endowed School, and Kirkham Grammar School. Lieutenant-Colonel 5th Lanc. Royal Garrison Artillery; holds Long Service Medal and Victoria Decoration; at present in command of Left Brigade Division at Lancaster; Governor and Secretary to the Harris Orphanage, Secretary and Registrar to the Harris Institute, and Victoria Jubilee Technical School, and Secretary to the Homes for the Blind for North and East Lancashire; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries; prior to his appointment to the Governorship of the Harris Orphanage, fifteen years ago, was for a quarter of a century connected with the staff of the County Offices, being attached to the Treasurer’s Department; on the Governing Body of several Public Charities, and a member of the Council of the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes; a Freemason, and Past Provincial Grand Treasurer for West Lancashire in the various degrees. Married Catherine, daughter of the late Richard Parkinson, of Longridge, and granddaughter of the late Canon Parkinson, of Manchester.
Rev. John Russell Napier, The Vicarage, Walsden, near Todmorden; son of Richard Clay Napier, of Preston; born at Preston, January 5th, 1859; educated at Marlborough College, 1872-78, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1878-82 (B.A.Cantab.), and Leeds Clergy School, 1882-83. Curate of Leigh, Lancashire, 1883-86; Curate of St. Paul’s, Preston, 1886-90: appointed by the Bishop of Manchester to Walsden in 1890; Captain of Marlborough Cricket XL, 1878; played for Cambridge University XI., and occasionally for Lancashire County; Cambridge Quidnuncs in 1881. Married, January, 1888, Mary, daughter of Richard Roe, surgeon, of Eccles.
James Thompson Nichol, 18, Ribblesdale Place, Preston; eldest son of Thomas Dale Nichol, Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and grandson of Anthony Nichol, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mayor of that city, 1858, and owner of “Newminster” (winner of St. Leger, 1851), “Warlock” (winner of St. Leger, 1856), “ Nunneykirk,” “The Wizard” (each winner of classical races), and other celebrated race-horses; grandson of James Thompson, Kirkhouse, Cumberland, and grand-nephew of George Thompson, author of “ Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa ” (1826); born at Newcastle, November 15th, 1852; educated at Bruce’s School, and Edinburgh University; F.R.C.S.E., and L.R.C.P. Edin. Surgeon to the English Electrical Equipment Company; Visiting Surgeon to Marsden Hall Asylum, and other appointments. Has been twice married.
William Edward Ord, 10, Bairstow Street, Preston; son of Thomas Ord, Preston; born at Preston, July 17th, 1862; educated at The Friends’ School, Ackworth, and Bootham, York. Member of the firm of Satterthwaite and Company, leather merchants, of Preston; member of the Preston Corporation; one of the representatives of the county borough of Preston on Lancaster Asylums Board; takes a great interest in athletics, and has been Chairman for many years of Preston North End Football Club; Chairman of the North Lancashire Centre of the National Cyclists‘ Union. Club: National Liberal, London.
John Allen Parkinson, Claughton House, near Garstang; son of the late Joseph Parkinson, of Leckonby House, Great Eccleston, Lancashire; born at Lytham, September 21st, 1855; educated at Preston Grammar School. Is a member of one of the oldest yeoman families in the Fylde District of Lancashire. Head of the firm of Messrs. Parkinson and Wilson, land agents and surveyors, 5, Chapel Street, Preston; Chairman of the Rural District Council of Garstang; for six years was one of the representatives of Maudland Ward, on the Town Council of Preston. Married Eleanor, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Crook, Chesham House, Inskip, near Garstang.
Rev. Thomas Pearson, M.A., The Vicarage, Pilling; son of the late Thomas Pearson, of Overton, Cheshire; born at Stockton Heath, July 1st, 1862; educated privately and at Christ’s College, Cambridge; M.A. Camb. Vicar of Pilling since 1897; ordained Deacon, 1888, Priest, 1890, at Manchester; Curate of St. Matthew, Chadderton, 1888-93; Curate of Preston, 1893-97. Married Jane Hannah, daughter of W. B. Roberts, of Pilling.
Charles Harvey Plant, Nooklands, Preston; son of the late William James Plant, solicitor, of Preston; born at Ashton-on-Ribble: educated at Preston Grammar School, and by private tutors. Member of the firm of Plant, Abbott and Plant. solicitors, of Preston and Poulton-le-Fylde: Official Receiver in Bankruptcy for Preston, Blackburn and Burnley Districts. Married, August, 1885, Mamie, daughter of John Forshaw, of Hurst Grange, Preston, and has issue two sons and one daughter.
Thomas Pimley, Poplar Lodge, Fulwood; son of Samuel Pimley, for many years connected with Horrockses, Crewdson and Company, of Preston; born at Preston, January 15th, 1865; early education at Irthington, afterwards passed the College of Preceptors; went in 1886 to the University of Aberdeen, taking degrees of M.B. and C.M. in 1891. Engaged in private practice as a physician for the past twelve years; has been for ten years Medical Officer to the Preston Union Workhouse at Fulwood, where there are two hundred and fifty beds; is a Past Master of Masons; Lodge, Peace and Unity, No. 314. Married Iza, daughter of the late Richard Watson; she was left an orphan at twelve years, and being a ward in Chancery was brought up by the late Alderman Bibby; has issue three daughters.
Canon Joseph A. Pyke, late of The English Martyrs’ Presbytery, Preston; son of Joseph Pyke, formerly of Ribchester and subsequently of Claughton, Lancashire, whose ancestors were greatly reduced in circumstances owing to the exactions for recusancy; born in Liverpool, June 13th, 1842; educated at St. Edward’s Catholic College, Liverpool, and at St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw, near Durham. Ordained on September 20th, 1868, by the Right Rev. Alexander Goss, D.D., Bishop of Liverpool, in the Church of the English Martyrs, Preston, under the Rectorship of Rev. James Taylor; in 1870, the Union Workhouse, Preston, was opened, and Canon (then Father) Pyke, was appointed Chaplain, this being the first paid appointment as a Roman Catholic Religious Instructor recognised in England since the Reformation; in 1874 he succeeded Canon Taylor as Rector of the Church of the English Martyrs; was made a Dean in 1886, and Canon of the Diocese of Liverpool in 1896. Canon Pyke died on November 9th, 1902.
Alexander Clement Rayner, M.D., Fair View, Fulwood, Preston; son of the late Rev. Thomas A. Rayner; born at Wellington, Shropshire, July, 1842; educated at the Wesleyan College, Taunton, and Charing Cross Hospital, London; M.D., University of Durham. Late President of the Preston Medico-Ethical Society; President for many years of the Lune Street Literary Society, and author of various scientific and literary papers. Chief recreations: cycling, travel and literature. Married, July, 1869, Mary, daughter of the late Henry Sharples, of Moor Park Avenue, Preston.
James Arthur Rigby, M.D., 15, Winckley Square, Preston; son of James Rigby, of Blackpool; born at Preston, May 31st, 1849; educated at Guy’s Hospital, London; M.D. London. Hon. Consulting Medical Officer to the Preston and County of Lancaster Royal Victoria Infirmary; Surgeon-Major to the 5th Lancashire Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) and Army Medical Reserve; joined the Artillery Volunteers in 1890, as Surgeon-Lieutenant; gazetted Surgeon Captain in 1891, and Surgeon-Major in 1902; author of “A Critical Inquiry into some of the Causes of the High Death Rate in Preston,” “On Carbolic Acid Poisoning,” and numerous other medical and scientific papers. Married, in 1875, Sarah Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Thompson, of Manor House, Camberwell.
Rev. William Ritson, M.A., The Parsonage, Rivington; son of the late William Ritson, of Lloyds Bank, Manchester, afterwards of Manchester and Liverpool District Bank; born at Collyhurst, July 31st, 1843; educated at Manchester Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge; Open Scholar and Prizeman, 2nd Class Classical Tripos, 1867; M.A. Cambs. Ordained Deacon, 1869, at Manchester; Priest, 1870; Curate of St. Peter’s, Oldham, 1869-74; Curate of Parish Church, Preston, 1875-77; Assistant Diocesan Inspector, 1877-79; Perpetual Curate of Rivington, 1879. Married firstly, in 1878, Lucy Margaret, youngest daughter of Colonel Blackburne, C E., of Oldham; secondly, in 1894, Caroline, only daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Randolph, late 94th Regiment, of Clifton.
William Bryham Roper, J.P., Burrow Bank, Fulwood, Preston; son of John Roper, of Lowther, near Penrith; born at Shap, Westmoreland, May 13th, I838; educated at Shap and Reagill Grammar Schools. Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Preston; Mayor of Preston, 1900-01; Deputy Mayor to Earl of Derby, 1901-02; Alderman of the Borough and Chairman of the Institute of the Blind, and Homes for Blind Children; Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Preston and County of Lancaster Queen Victoria Royal Infirmary; Treasurer to the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Church of England Sunday School Association; also Chairman of the School Attendance Committee for Preston, etc.; instrumental in the erection of St. Jude’s, St. Saviour’s, and St. Luke’s Churches, also School Chapels-of-Ease for St. Paul’s, Christ Church, and St. Saviour’s Churches, and a number of Mission Rooms and Ragged School Buildings. Married, May 19th, 1895, Jane, only daughter of the late William Bolton, of Moor Park Avenue, Preston.