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Thomas Corser was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire, in 1793, and was educated from 1808 at the Manchester Grammar School. In 1812 he was admitted as a commoner of Baliol College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1815 and MA in 1818. In 1817 he was ordained to the priesthood and in 1821 moved to the curacy of Prestwich, near Manchester. He obtained the incumbency of All Saints' Church, Stand, Manchester, in 1826, and continued there for nearly 50 years. He married Ellen Lyon, the eldest daughter of Rev James Lyon, rector of Prestwich, on 24 November 1828.

One of the founders of the Chetham Society in 1843, Corser was also a member of the Spenser, Camden, Surtees, Percy and Shakespeare societies, and was elected FSA in 1850.

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