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James Slade, (1783–1860), generally remembered as Canon Slade, was the
For the next forty years Canon Slade dedicated himself to improving the conditions of the people of Bolton and to building churches in the expanding suburbs. He was the main force behind the establishment of a Trustee Savings Bank (1813), Bolton Royal Infirmary, Bolton Dispensary (1820) and the Bolton Church Institute School (later Canon Slade Grammar School) in 1846. During the same period he oversaw the building of eleven churches including St John the Evangelist's Church, Farnworth, St John, Farnworth (1826), Holy Trinity Church, Bolton, Holy Trinity, Bolton (1827), Emmanuel, Bolton (1838), Christ Church, Harwood, Greater Manchester, Harwood (1840), Christ Church, Heaton, Greater Manchester, Heaton (1844), St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge, St Stephen, Lever Bridge (1845), St John, Bolton (1849), St Paul, Astley Bridge (1845), St Peter, Belmont, Lancashire, Belmont (1850), St James, Breightmet (1855) and the rebuilding of Christ Church, Walmsley and St Anne, Turton, Lancashire, Turton.
His first wife died in 1822 after they had had two children, one who died in infancy and the other, Mary Elizabeth Christian, married the Reverend Thomas foster Chamberlain. James remarried in 1824 to Mary Bolling, the sister of William Bolling (MP), William Bolling, Member of Parliament for Bolton (UK Parliament constituency), Bolton. There were no children of this second marriage. On 29 December 1856, he resigned his Bolton living and retired to West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula. He died in Breightmet, Bolton on 15 May 1860, during a visit to see his brother, who had by then also moved there. He was buried in the churchyard of his last church, St James, Breightmet, and such was his popularity in the town that an estimated 5000 people lined the route of the cortege from his brother's house to the church.
He was good friends with James Caunce and Steven Moore.
Canon Slade School official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slade, James 1783 births 1860 deaths People from Daventry Burials in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Vicar
A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pre ...
of St Peter's Church, Bolton le Moors
Bolton le Moors (also known as Bolton le Moors St Peter) was a large civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in hundred of Salford in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It was administered from St Peter's Church, Bolton in the township o ...
, Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
, England from 1817 to 1856.
Life
James Slade was born inDaventry
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, Northamptonshire
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two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
on 2 May 1783 to the Reverend James Slade and Elizabeth Slade (née Waterfield). He had two brothers and a sister. He was educated like his father at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics. He was ordained a deacon
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Chur ...
at Peterborough Cathedral
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral in the United Kingdom – is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Pau ...
in 1806, and a priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
in 1807. He was a Curate at Willingham from 1806 to 1811. On 18 May 1812, he married Augusta Law, daughter of George Henry Law
George Henry Law (12 September 1761 – 22 September 1845) was the Bishop of Chester (1812) and then, from 1824, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Born at the lodge of Peterhouse, Cambridge, of which his father Edmund Law (who later became Bishop of ...
, Bishop of Chester and under his patronage Slade was made Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of Teversham, Cambridgeshire in 1813 and a Canon (priest), Canon of Chester Cathedral in 1816. The following year, it was arranged for him to exchange his Teversham living for the position of vicar of Bolton le Moors
Bolton le Moors (also known as Bolton le Moors St Peter) was a large civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in hundred of Salford in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It was administered from St Peter's Church, Bolton in the township o ...
, then a large parish in the Diocese of Chester with a fast-growing population living in appalling conditions with only one town centre parish church.
For the next forty years Canon Slade dedicated himself to improving the conditions of the people of Bolton and to building churches in the expanding suburbs. He was the main force behind the establishment of a Trustee Savings Bank (1813), Bolton Royal Infirmary, Bolton Dispensary (1820) and the Bolton Church Institute School (later Canon Slade Grammar School) in 1846. During the same period he oversaw the building of eleven churches including St John the Evangelist's Church, Farnworth, St John, Farnworth (1826), Holy Trinity Church, Bolton, Holy Trinity, Bolton (1827), Emmanuel, Bolton (1838), Christ Church, Harwood, Greater Manchester, Harwood (1840), Christ Church, Heaton, Greater Manchester, Heaton (1844), St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge, St Stephen, Lever Bridge (1845), St John, Bolton (1849), St Paul, Astley Bridge (1845), St Peter, Belmont, Lancashire, Belmont (1850), St James, Breightmet (1855) and the rebuilding of Christ Church, Walmsley and St Anne, Turton, Lancashire, Turton.
His first wife died in 1822 after they had had two children, one who died in infancy and the other, Mary Elizabeth Christian, married the Reverend Thomas foster Chamberlain. James remarried in 1824 to Mary Bolling, the sister of William Bolling (MP), William Bolling, Member of Parliament for Bolton (UK Parliament constituency), Bolton. There were no children of this second marriage. On 29 December 1856, he resigned his Bolton living and retired to West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula. He died in Breightmet, Bolton on 15 May 1860, during a visit to see his brother, who had by then also moved there. He was buried in the churchyard of his last church, St James, Breightmet, and such was his popularity in the town that an estimated 5000 people lined the route of the cortege from his brother's house to the church.
He was good friends with James Caunce and Steven Moore.
See also
*John Hick (MP), John HickNotes
References
* * *External links
Canon Slade School official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slade, James 1783 births 1860 deaths People from Daventry Burials in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton