OBITUARY.
. . ■ i ■■■ p ■'.■.. , BRITISH LIBERAL M,P. By 'Telegraph—Press Aflsoclaiton-Oopyrteht London, November l. Mr. .George" Harwood, Liberal M.P. for Bolton, is dead. > Mr, Harwood (states the "Pall Mall Gazette" House of Commons handbook)was a. Bolton cotton-spinner, who was al6o at one time an ordained deacon. He was born at Bolton in 1845, and left Owens College, Manchester, to travel, and then settled down to business, But, having taken part in the foundation 'of the Church Reform Union,' be was,ordained in 1886, and acted as a. curate for three years, retaining his lay dress, title, and business all the time in the hope thus to set a precedent for the widening of tho diaconate. After his curacy, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln s, Inn. As lawyer and churchman, Mr. Harwood had strong qualifications for his appointment as a Royal Commissioner on Church Diseipli&e in 1901.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19121109.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in