John Thomas Hartill.
Joseph Johnson.
David Wm. Lees.
Jas. Carpenter Tildesley.
Henry Vaughan.
Henry Hartill Walker, junr.
Of these gentlemen only Messrs. J. T. Hartill, Vaughan, and Walker are now living.
It might be necessary under certain conditions (as, for instance, in any action connected with the sale of the Advowson) to constitute a body of elected Trustees (as distinct from the aforementioned nominated Trustees) of not more than eleven, nor less than five members, duly elected at a statutory meeting of the town’s inhabitant freeholders.
As a matter of fact, a public meeting of the owners of the Advowson, convened on the requisition of a memorial to the Incumbent (Rev. W. E. Rosedale), signed by a number of them, was held in the month of June, 1900, to consider a proposal for the sale of the said Advowson. A similar proposal had been discussed in 1898 at a public meeting attended by some 200 owners, when it was suggested that half the sum realised should be handed over to the town authorities, while the other half should be spent on the church and schools.
At this second meeting, over which Mr. T. Nicholls, chairman of the District Council, presided, the sale value of the Advowson