Petition to the trustees of the Free Grammar School of Clitheroe for an increase in salary. By Thomas Wilson. Clitheroe, Lancashire. June 24, 1789. June 24, 1789

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Petition to the trustees of the Free Grammar School of Clitheroe for an increase in salary. By Thomas Wilson. Clitheroe, Lancashire. June 24, 1789. June 24, 1789

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This petition was addressed to the Gentleman Governors of the Free Grammar School of Clithero, Lancashire by the school's Master, Thomas Wilson, 1747-1813, and Usher, T. Heaton, requesting an augmentation of their salaries. The petition was written by Thomas Wilson and signed by both petitioners, dated June 24, 1789. On the verso an endorsement of approval by 3 trustees, including Mr. Whitaker (i.e. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, 1759-1821), is dated June 24, 1790. The letter was found in an envelope addressed to Reverend R[obert] N[owell] Whitaker, Whalley Vicarage, Blackburn and postmarked Rochdale, October 13, 1856. Robert Nowell Whitaker, 1800-1881, was the son of Thomas Dunham Whitaker. A note on the inner flap of the envelope, initialed by F[rancis] R[obert] R[aines], 1805-1878, indicates that he was returning the enclosed petition to its owner. The note mentions several others from whom he borrowed documents for compiling a biographical work about Wilson. Raines cites this petition in his monograph, , published in the Chetham Society series, , Vol 45 (1857), xxi-xxii. After receiving the returned petition, Robert Nowell Whitaker added to the envelope a memorandum written on a scrap of paper and dated October 24, 1856 verifying the petition as Thomas Wilson's handwriting. Miscellanies: being a selection from the poems and correspondence of the Rev. T. Wilson, with memoirs of his life Remains, historical and literary, connected with the Palatine counties of Lancashire and Chester

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Clitheroe Grammar School

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Whitaker, Robert Nowell, 1800-1881.

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Raines, F. R. (Francis Robert), 1805-1878

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F. R. Raines was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, on 22 February 1805. He was educated at Burton Pidsea in Holderness and, from the age of 13, at Clitheroe as apprentice to William Coultate, surgeon, who later moved to Burnley. During his apprenticeship Raines went to Clitheroe and Burnley Grammar Schools, but he found medicine uncongenial and was released from his apprenticeship. In 1826 he was admitted to St Bees Theological College and following his ordination became assist...

Heaton, T.

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Wilson, Thomas, 1747-1813

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