JAMES FRASER SECOND BISHOP OF MANCHESTER - I887 - P R E F A C E - THE thanks of the readers of this book, and of the Author, are due to Mrs. Fraser, and to the friends of the late Bishop who have kindly allowed selections from their letters to be published, or have furnished memoranda of their intercourse with him. Nothing else seems to be needed in the way of preface to a biography of this class. Ko one can doubt that this time has need of men of faith, simplicity, and courage, and of these qualities Bishop Fraser was a bright example. My work has been only to let him paint his own picture good wine needs no bush. CONTENTS. PART I. CHAPTER I. PAGE EARLY YEARS. BRIDGENORTH AKI SHREWSBURY SCHOOLS, LIKC0I. N COLLEGE, OXFORD. 1818-1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHAPTER 11. ORIEL, 184-1848. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER IV. CHOLDERTON. 11. CHANCELLOR OF SALISBURY-THE NEW SCHOOLSSUB-COMbIISSIONER ON ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. 1850-1860 . . . 7 7 CHAPTER V. UFTON NERVET. I. 1860-1864. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 CHLIPTER VT. AnrEnrcn. 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE . . . . 115 CHAPTER VII. PART 11. CHAPTER 1. THE TRANSITION. 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 CIIAPTER 11. BREAKISG GROUND IN IIASCIIESTER. 187-1871 . CHAPTER 111. IIANCHESTER, EXTRA DIOCESAN WORK HOUSE OF LORDS CONVOCATION. 187-1871 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 CHAPTER ITT. IIANCIIESTER, 1871-1875 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 CHAPTER V. MANCHESTER. THE LABOUR QUESTIOK. TRADES UNIONS, CO-OPERATIOK 225 CHAPTER VI. PAGE MANCHESTER, 1876-1880. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 6 hlILES PLATTING . . . . CHAPTER VII. . . . . . . . . CIIAPTER VIII. THE CONVOCATION OF YORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5 CHAPTER IX. MARRIAGE, l880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 CHAPTER X. MANCHESTER, 1880-1884. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 CHAPTER XI. ST. JOHNS, CHEETHAM HILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER XII. THE LAST YEAR. 1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 APPENDIX . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture. The Church was the mediator, check, and democratic principle in Europe- Latimer, Wicliffe, Arundel, Cobham, Anthony Parsons, Sir Harry Vane, George Fox, Penn, Bunyan, are the democrats, as well as the saints, of their times. The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people, has made in fourteen centuries a massive system, close fitted to the manners and l genius of the country, at once domestical and stately. In the long time it has blended with everything in heaven above and the earth beneath. - ELIERSONS English Traits- Religion. He who would understand England must understand her Church, for that is half of the , hole . - C A R L Y L E S Journal, FROUDES Lt fe, vol. ii. p. 73. LIFE PART I. CHAPTER I. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them who in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, I-cly Upon the genial sense of youth Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not. WORDSWORT O H de , fo Dug. EARLY TEARS. XRIDGENORTII AND SIIRE SBURY SCHOOLS, LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD. I8 I S-I 840. JA IES F RASE w R a s born on the I 8th of August IS IS, at 181 g Oaklands House in the parish of Prestbury, a Gloucestershire to village nestling under the Cots volds...