Derby is situated on the western bank of the river Derwent, over which is the handsome stone bridge and the chapel of St. Mary.

St. Mary’s, near the bridge, was an old building in the Saxon style, situated upon the verge of the Derwent and forming a part of the old bridge. It is thought to have been one of the six churches mentioned in Domesday Book. During the reign of Charles II. the Presbyterians met for divine worship within its walls ; but with the exception of that short period, it had not been used as a church for many ages.

The town is large, well built, and populous ; and contains five parish churches, and several meetinghouses for dissenters of different denominations.— Among the churches, that of All Saints is the most remarkable. The tower, which is 178 feet in height, the upper part being richly ornamented with tracery, high pinnacles, and battlements, was erected in the reign of Henry VIII. and, according to tradition, by the unmarried inhabitants of the town, an inscription on the north and south sides of the fabric being given in corroboration of the tale. The words are young men and maids, but the characters are nearly obliterated: the body, which is a modern pile, is of the Grecian order, and the interior is particularly light, elegant, and spacious. The roof is supported by five columns on each side; the windows are large and handsome, and the symmetry and proportions of the whole building have a very pleasing effect. At the west end is a spacious gallery, furnished with a good organ. The east is separated from the part of the structure appropriated for divine service, by a rich open screen-work of iron. The portion thus separated from the body of the church is divided into three parts. On the northern side is the vestry, and east entrance to the church ; the centre is an elegant chancel; and the southernmost is occupied by the monuments of the Cavendishes, many of that illustrious family being buried in a vault beneath. Among other monuments in this repository is a splendid mural one to the memory of the celebrated Countess of Shrewsbury, constructed during her life-time, and under her own inspection. Near the centre of this part of the church is another elegant monument, erected to the memory of William Earl of Devonshire, and Christian his countess, the only daughter of Lord Bruce, of Kinloss, in Scotland. The expence of erecting this church was chiefly defrayed by a subscription, procured through the indefatigable industry of the minister, which is particularised by the following tablet, erected to his memory, placed on the southern wall of this edifice.

In Memory Of the Rev. Michael Hutchinson, D. D. Late Minister of this Church ;

Who from a pious zeal, and unwearied application,

Obtained Subscriptions,

And afterwards collected and paid Three thousand, two hundred and forty-nine pounds,

And upwards, for the Rebuilding of this Church;

He died the tenth day of June,

In the year of our Lord God

MDCCXXX.

In ancient writings this church is called All-hallows, which name it still retains among the common people. It was originally a free collegiate chapel, and besides the master or rector, who was the dean of Lincoln, had seven prebendaries ; but at the suppression of religious houses the whole revenues of the church amounted to no more than 39l. 12s. per annum.

St. Alkmund’s Church, which is situated at the north end of the town, is supposed to have been founded as early as the beginning of the ninth century, in honour of Alkmund, the son of Alured ; the latter being crowned king of Northumberland in the year 765, was deposed by a faction in favour of Ethelred, after a reign of nine years. His son Alkmund, headed a party to reinstate his father ; but being unsuccessful, was put to death in the year 800, by Ardulph, the reigning prince. The church, in early times, was given to the abbey of Derby, and continued till the Dissolution, when Henry seized it: and it rested in the crown, till his daughter Queen Mary gave it to the corporation of Derby, who have the presentation. The present structure, though very ancient, appears to have been built posterior to the Saxon times : on different parts of it are several rude heads and other sculptures, intended as ornaments.

St. Michael’s Church, which stands near the last, was likewise a member of the abbey of Derby. It is a small edifice, presenting nothing remarkable.

St. Werburghs is situated on the west side of Derby, upon Markeaton Brook, and like All Saints has a tower and body of different orders; though both appear to have been erected during the last century. The ancient church is said to have been built before the Conquest; but, from its situation, its foundation was sapped by floods, and in the year 1601 the tower fell ; to prevent a similar accident, the new one was erected on a more firm basis, and on the east side of the body of the church, contrary to the usual situation of steeples. In the year 1698, in consequence of a flood, the body of the church fell. The interior of the present fabric is light and handsome.

St. Peter’s is situated in the south part of the town, and in the year 1530 had a chapel founded in it by Robert Liversage, a dyer of Derby, who endowed it for the support of a priest, who was to celebrate divine service every Friday, and afterwards distribute a silver penny to thirteen persons of his congregation of either sex. Here was also a chauntry, founded in honour of the blessed Mary. The whole of these churches, except All Saints, having belonged to Derby Abbey, were seized by Henry VIII. and afterwards given by his daughter Mary to the corporation of Derby.

A shock of an earthquake, which was felt on the 17th of March, 1816, at Derby and other places in its vicinity, and particularly in the churches of All Saints, and St. Peter’s, caused a piece of plaster to fall from the roof into the body of the church, but happily did no other damage.

The principal public buildings in Derby, besides the churches, are a County and a Town-hall, a County Goal, an elegant Assembly Room, and a Theater.

The County Hall, which is situated in St. Mary’s Gate, was erected in the year 1660. It is a large but heavy building of freestone.

The Town Hall is a handsome structure, built by the corporation, about the year 1730, on the site of a more ancient one of wood and plaster, on the south-east side of the Market-place.

The County Gaol is situated at the east end of the town, near the upper end of Friar Gate. It was erected in the year 1756, at the expense of the county, aided by the donation of 400l. from the duke of Devonshire. It is a respectable building; the front being from an excellent design, displaying solidity and strength, and the interior is well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended.

The Assembly Room, which is of stone, is situated at the north-east side of the Market-place. It was begun in the year 1763, and completed by subscription in 1774, to which the Duke of Devonshire was a liberal contributor. On the pediment are sculptured a variety of musical instruments, figurative of the design of the building.

The Theater is a neat edifice of brick, standing in Bold Lane, and erected at the expence of Mr. James Whitley, in the year 1773. The interior is both handsome and commodious.

One of the most considerable charities in this town is the Devonshire Alms Houses, situated near All Saints, and founded by the famous Countess of Shrewsbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, for eight men and four women, each of whom have two rooms, coals, and half-a-crown per week; they wear dark clothes, badged with E. S. (Elizabeth Shrewsbury) on a silver plate. The original building, which was of stone, was taken down about 30 years since, and the present edifice erected from an original plan, at the expence of the Duke of Devonshire, "yet, (says a modern writer,) whatever convenience the interior may possess, the design of the front but ill accords with the nature of the establishment. The simplicity and modest plainness that should exist in a structure devoted to the purposes of charity are sacrificed to a style of architecture that would be more in character when employed in the entrance to a nobleman’s park or pleasure grounds."

In Bridge Gate are eight Alms-houses, for an equal number of aged of each sex, called the Black Alms-houses, from the black gowns worn by the inhabitants, who have eighteen-pence a week. This foundation was laid by the family of Wilmot, of Chaddesden, 200 years ago, who appropriated 40l. per annum for its support, charged upon the tythes of Derby.

Another Alms-house for the widows of clergymen, is situated at the top of Friar Gate : and was instituted in the year 1716, by Edward Large, of Derby, who endowed them with an estate which produces to each resident, who are five in number, about 17l. per annum.

For the education of the children of the poor there is a Free Grammar School, which originally belonged to Derby Abbey ; but was granted to the corporation by Queen Mary. Several Sunday schools have likewise been recently established in this town.

The Derby General Infirmary

This excellent Institution is situated near the London Road in a healthful, airy, and dry situation, abounding with good water. The building is constructed of a beautiful hard white stone, of a handsome, yet simple, elevation of three stories, containing a light central hall, with a double staircase. Here the iron dome, the wide stone gallery, and the very large stone stair-case resting upon the perforated floor of the hall, which covers part of the basement story, excite admiration from their well-known strength and solidity. This Infirmary certainly does possess a degree of perfection un known to similar establishments, for instance, in the construction of two light and spacious rooms, one for each sex, called Day, or Convalescent Rooms, where persons recovering, instead of being confined to the same room day and night, as has been the usual practice, may eat their meals, and pass the day. Here is also a Fever House, where relief is administered, in case of infectious diseases. The entrance to this is directly opposite to the front, and has no internal connexion with the Infirmary. Besides the Convalescent Rooms, and the Fever House, superior accommodations are provided for patients labouring under acute diseases in general; these consist of four small wards, containing one, two, three, and four beds respectively, with a water-closet, nurse’s bed-room, and scullery. This arrangement enables the medical men to separate the diseases from each other, as may best suit their natures ; and being parted off from the body of the house by folding-doors, procure silence, and exclude too much light, essential in some cases, and render this a convenience, perhaps superior to many private houses. Another contrivance is, that ventilation shall be copious, and the warmth regulated at pleasure: and with respect to water-closets, to prevent the draft from the house being reversed, a mode of construction has been invented, which does away every objection of the kind. A small steam engine is used to pump water, wash,&c. A statue of Esculapius, indicating the object of this useful institution, placed upon the centre of the dome. The magnitude of the building, calculated to hold about one hundred patients, is sufficient at present. Three physicians, four, surgeons, and a house apothecary, have been appointed to the Institution since, it was opened for relief of in and out-patients in June 1810. At a late grand musical festival at Derby, nearly 1000l., were collected for the support of this unique and laudable institution.

The Ordnance Depot

Not far from this Infirmary is the Ordnance Depot, erected according to a plan by Mr. Wyatt, about 1805. Here is an Armoury in the centre; the room on the ground-floor is seventy-five feet long, by twenty-five broad, and is calculated to hold fifteen thousand stand of arms, disposed in the same order as those in the Tower of London. A room above this, of the same dimensions, contains army accouterments; and on the north and south sides of the Armoury are two magazines made to contain 1200 barrels of ammunition, internally arched with brick, to prevent accidents; and for the same purpose, conductors are put up at a little distance from each. Four dwellings in the angles of the exterior wall are appropriated to barracks for a detachment of the Royal Artillery, and the residence of officers in the Civil Department of the Ordnance. Suitable workshops have also been erected on the inside of the surrounding wall, and the whole is under the superintendance of an Ordnance store-keeper.

Gas Lights.—These appear to have been first introduced into this county by Joseph Strutt, Esq. who made use of them in his private house in St Peter’s, Derby. They were afterwards adopted by the Factory of the Butterly Company, near Ripley, where the necessary apparatus for making and burning the gas was introduced for general sale.

The principal manufactories carried on at Derby are those of silk, cotton, porcelain, and ornaments of Derbyshire spar and marble; and till machinery was multiplied by an unprecedented exertion of talent and ingenuity, the original silk-mill at this place used to be admired, and generally described as a phenomenon, by strangers to improved mechanism.

Derby has been the general seat of the literature of the county, as well as the scene of several of its improvements.

Literature and Eminent Men

Among the eminent men, whose abilities have distinguished this county, Dr. Thomas Linacre is the first as to the priority of time, being born at Derby in 1400; he was a man of great, natural sagacity, a skillful physician, a profound grammarian, one of the best Greek and Latin scholars of his time, and intimate with Collett, Erasmus, and most of the eminent literary characters of the age. John Flamstead, the great astronomer, is generally supposed to have been born at Derby. Among other ingenious men, natives or very long residents at Derby, we reckon Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, originally an attorney: Mr. John Whitehurst; Mr. Joseph Wright, the late celebrated painter; and the late Dr. Erasmus Darwin, equally famed as a physician and a poet, who spent the last twenty-one years of his life at Derby. To his greatest praise, one of his biographers observes, the Doctor was "not famous for holding religious subjects in veneration; but however skeptical he might have been in his belief, he exhibited in his conduct what is more beneficial to the world than the tenacious adherence to any speculative opinions—firm integrity and a benevolent heart. Professional generosity distinguished his medical practice. Diligently did he attend to the health of the poor at Litchfield and Derby, supplied their necessities by food, and every kind of charitable assistance. In each of these places, his was the cheerful board of almost open-housed hospitality, without extravagance or parade, ever deeming the first unjust, the latter unmanly; generosity, wit, and science were his household gods." His Botanic Garden, his Zoonomia, and his Temple of Nature, or the Origin of Society, will not soon be forgotten, though, in many instances, it must be confessed, he sacrificed too much to imagination.

The celebrated John Brindley is mentioned more at large in the sequel of this work.

The memory of the late Mr. Mundy, of Markeaton, one of the correspondents of the late Miss Seward of poetical celebrity, and many of her cotemporaries, and the universal friend of genius, is to be perpetuated by a bust of statuary marble, with suitable appendages, to be erected in a conspicuous and convenient situation in the County Hall, with an English inscription upon it, to record the character and public services of Mr. Mundy, the gratitude of the county, and the universal sorrow occasioned by his death. This flattering memorial was agreed to at a meeting of the Grand Jury, at the Assizes held in the County Hall, in April, 1816. Of this gentleman’s benevolence, it was observed, "he did not wait for solicitation before he bestowed his sympathy, and the objects of his attentions were not unfrequently unknown to him,"

The Rev. T. Seward, father of the celebrated Miss Seward, was a native of Eyam in this county.

There are several respectable reading societies at Derby, Chesterfield, and other principal towns, agricultural books have generally as large a sale iu this county as in most others; but the most generally read, and perhaps the most useful, on this important subject, is the "Farmer’s Journal," a weekly publication printed in London, one quarter of which, and often nearly one-half, is devoted to correspondence, and essays on agricultural, rural, and politico-economical subjects, principally by able and practical men. One weekly newspaper, the Derby Mercury, is the only one published in the county.

The corporation consists of a mayor, nine aldermen, fourteen brethren (out of whom the aldermen are selected), fourteen common-councilmen, a recorder, a high steward, and a town-clerk. The privilege of returning members to parliament is vested in the freemen and sworn burgesses, who are about 700 in number.

The environs of Derby are very interesting. On Nun’s Green there is a small bleaching-mill, where the processes are performed according to the improved chemical methods; to this a small steam-engine is attached. The vicinity also contains a mill for slitting and rolling iron for various uses; a large furnace for smelting copper ore, with a machine for battering and rolling the copper into sheets; a red-lead mill; a mill for making tinned plates; and an extensive shot-mill, &c.

To the addition of houses in Derby, may be reckoned the lighting and paving of the streets, and the removal of various obstructions, with several of the old bridges over Markeaton Brook. Many pleasant walks are to be found about Derby, particularly in following the banks of the Derwent to the north. There is another walk through the Grove to Derby; and a third on the eastern side of the river, to Little Chester, each affording a succession of prospects distinguished by the pleasing features of cultivation.

Half a mile to the north-east of Derby, on the bank of the Derwent, is the old Roman city Derventio, now called Little Chester. This place is a township in Derby's parish of St. Alkmund. Few vestiges of the ancient station are now to be seen, though Dr. Stukeley traced the track of the wall quite round ; and in some places saw under ground the foundation of it in the pastures. Within the walls were the foundations of houses ; and in the fields round what is called the castle, the track of the streets, laid with gravel, might be seen ; particularly in a dry summer, when the grass over them was bare. Several wells have been found, some of which are square, and curbed with good stone. And here abundance of Roman coins of gold, silver, and brass, have been dug up. Earthen pipes, the remains of aqueducts, and various other antiquities, have likewise been discovered. Towards the river human bones, brass, rings, &c. have also been dug up.

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DERBY, the chief town of Derbyshire, is a municipal and parliamentary borough, and a county borough and a market town, head of a petty sessional division, union, and county court district, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, and the head of a rural deanery and archdeaconry, in the diocese of Southwell. It has stations on the Midland and Great Northern railways, and a goods station of the London and North Western line, and is 127 miles from London by railway and 126 by the old or Manchester road, 16 from Alfreton, 20 ¾ from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 30 ½ from Ashborne, 140 from Bath, 42 ½ from Birmingham, 7 ¼ from Belper, 80 from Boston, 136 ½ from Bristol, 11 from Burton-on-Trent, 24 ¼ from Chesterfield, 92 from Cheltenham, 87 ¾ from Bradford, 47 ½ from Coventry, 54 from Doncaster, 39 from Dudley, 295 from Edinburgh, 212 from Exeter, 73 ¼ from Glossop, 290 from Glasgow, 99 from Gloucester, 94 from Hull, 38 ¼ from Leek, 74 from Leeds, 30 from Leicester, 23 ¼ from Lichfield, 49 from Lincoln, 92 from Liverpool, 17 ¾ from Loughborough, 51 ½ from Macclesfield, 60 ½ from Manchester, 16 from Matlock, 36 from Melton, 168 from Newcastle, 15 ¾ from Nottingham, 73 from Peterborough, 50 from Rugby, 7 from Sawley, 36 ¼ from Sheffield, 59 from Stamford, 36 ½ from Stoke, 24 from Tamworth, 19 ½ from Uttoxeter, 33 ½ from Walsall, 70 from Worcester, and 38 from York.

Derby appears to have had its origin in the Roman station “Derventio,” at Little Chester. By the Old English it was sometimes named “Northworthige,” but later “Dearby” or Derby (Teut. “thier,” Scand. “by”), signifying the “village of wild beasts,” this district being, in remote times, one vast forest, with the village of Derby in the midst. The Danes early settled here, and though driven out by Ethelfreda, the Lady of Mercia, daughter of Alfred the Great, afterwards repossessed themselves of it; subsequently it has been the scene of several events connected with our national history, the last of which was the retreat, in 1745, of the Young Pretender, which commenced at this point. Derby was one of the five burghs forming together a federal commonwealth of the Danes, each governed by its own laws. In this confederation York and Chester were sometimes included.

Derby is a central station on the Midland railway, with direct lines to Nottingham and Lincoln, Leicester and London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Exeter, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, Manchester and Liverpool, and York and Newcastle. There is also a passenger station in the Nottingham road. The town is also the headquarters of the Midland Railway Company, and includes their chief offices and a central depot, where is concentrated most of the material necessary for the purposes of the permanent way or the rolling stock; there it consequently here a vast establishment of storehouses and workshops, and a large engine and carriage factory, altogether employing upwards of 10,000 men.

The London and North Western and North Stafford companies have running powers into the Midland station, the former connecting the Wolverhampton and Walsall branch, and the latter the Burton and Crewe main lines.

The Great Northern Railway Company have a station here for their branch line from Nottingham to this town, and to Burton-on-Trent.

By the “Derby Corporation Act, 1877,” the borough, from the 1st November, 1877, was extended, and divided into eight wards, and appointed to be governed by a mayor, sixteen aldermen and forty-eight councillors. The borough has a commission of the peace and separate court of quarter sessions.

By the “Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885,” the parliamentary limits of the borough were also extended and made co-extensive with those of the municipal borough. The borough returns two members to Parliament. The assizes for the county as well as the sessions are held here. The mayor holds a court of quarter sessions, and twice in the year a court leet, the corporation being lords of the manor.

Under the Local Government Act, 1888, Derby became a “county borough” for certain purposes of that Act.

The town is supplied with water from works the property of the Corporation, situated in the parish of Breadsall, close to the village of Little Eaton (the offices being in Babington lane); they were first established by a private company, and transferred to the Corporation in January, 1880, the total cost of the works being £351,000; the supply is obtained chiefly from springs.

The principal streets are lighted by electricity supplied from large works erected in 1893, in Sowter road.

The original parishes, each having a church, are, All Saints’, St. Alkmunds, St. Peter’s, St. Michael’s and St. Werburgh’s.

On April 15, 1898 the civil parishes comprised within the borough were amalgamated, and now form one parish known as Derby, but ecclesiastically they are distinct parishes as before.

All Saints’ church, formerly collegiate, and partly rebuilt in 1725, at a cost of £4,000, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, in the Roman Doric style, from the designs of James Gibbs, and a fine embattled western tower, with tall crocketed pinnacles, 180 feet in height, erected in the reign of Henry VII., and containing a clock with chimes, and ten bells, dating from 1607 to 1687; the tower, a rich and elegant specimen of late Perpendicular, consists of three stages, the lowest of which has a western doorway and canopied niches on the angle buttresses, and above the entrance a line of panelling with intervening shields, on which rests a four-light window; the remaining stages are richly panelled and pierced with traceried windows, and the whole is crowned with a rich battlement, four crocketed pinnacles at the angles, and as many small octagonal pinnacles intermediately, with ogee caps and rich finials; in the church is a beautiful screen of rich open ironwork, said to have cost £500; all the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire of the Cavendish family {except the first earl) and most of the junior branches were interred here; the oldest existing monument, c. 1444—50, is a remarkably fine and unique incised alabaster slab of a former sub-dean and canon, named Lawe; it bears his effigy beneath an elaborate triple canopy, with a marginal inscription; the only other mediaeval monument is an altar tomb, now in three portions, of the early part of the 15th century, supporting the recumbent effigy of a canon and having beneath it a “cadaver” or shrouded figure, richly carved in wood; there are several other monuments and tombs of rich and elegant designs in alabaster and marble, the most remarkable of which are those of Elizabeth (Hardwick) Countess of Shrewsbury, the famous “Bess of Hardwick,” ob. 1607; William, second Earl of Devonshire, ob. 1628, and Christian (Bruce) his wife; William, second Earl of Bessborough, d. 11th March, 1793, and Lady Caroline (Cavendish) his wife, d. 1760; Sir William Wheler, Kt. and Bart. d. 1666; Richard Croshaw (1625); Thomas Chamber (1726); and Dr. Michael Hutchinson (1730); in the vault lie the remains of Spencer, second Earl of Northampton, a distinguished Royalist, slain at Hopton Heath, near Stafford, 19th March, 1643; Colonel Charles Cavendish, slain at Gainsborough in 1643; and Henry Cavendish, the eminent chemist and pneumatic philosopher, d. 24th Feb. 1810; here also was interred Mr. John Lombe, who, about 1714, established the first silk mill in England in this town, and died here 3rd Jan. 1739; on the north side of the nave is an oak reading desk with the following inscription:-“The old church was begun to be taken down February 18, 1722—3; the first sermon was preached in the new church, Novem. 21st, 1725, by ye Rev. Dr, Hutchinson;” the church was repaired in 1850 at a cost of about £1,200, and in 1873 was reseated; the stained east window, placed in 1863, is a memorial to H.R.H, the Prince Consort, and cost £700; there is a very fine and valuable collection of Communion plate, including a portion of the original massive salver service, presented in 1728—9 by Brownlow, eighth Earl of Exeter, and Hannah Sophia (Chambers) his wife, and bearing their arms, crest and motto (Cor unum via una); there are 1,500 sittings, nearly all of which are free. The register, which is in a fair condition, dates from the year 1558 for all entries. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £280, in the gift of Simeon’s trustees and held since 1892 by the Rev. Jonathan Howell M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and surrogate.

The ancient church of St. Alkmund, founded early in the 9th century, was pulled down in 1841; the present church, erected in 1846, at a cost of about £12,000, is a fine edifice of stone, in the Decorated style, from designs by Mr. Henry Stevens, architect, of this town, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of 5 bays, aisles, south porch, with parishioners’ vestry over, and a noble western tower with pinnacles and a lofty octagonal spire, 200 feet in height, and containing a clock and 8 bells, all dated 1846; the east window is stained; in 1888 a fine organ was placed in the chancel at a cost of £1,150, and a new vestry was erected in 1890, at a cost of £200, from plans by Mr. F. J. Robinson: there are sittings for 1,250 persons. The register dates from the year 1538, and is in good condition. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £220, with residence, in the gift of Simeon’s trustees, and held since 1886 by the Rev. John Stanley Owen Th.Assoc. of King’s College, London, and surrogate.

St. Michael’s church. Queen street, a considerable portion of which fell during divine service, 17 August, 1856, was rebuilt in 1858 and is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch, and a low embattled tower at the west end, containing one bell, dated 1809; all the windows are stained glass; the church plate is remarkably fine, and dates from 1765: there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559, and is in good condition. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £174. including 26 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Harry Roger Rolfe.

St. Peter's church, in St. Peter’s street, is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, but containing portions of earlier work and consists of chancel, nave of three bays, with clerestory, aisles and north porch; it is now (1899) being restored and extended westward, and the tower having been rebuilt, the clock will be replaced, with a peal of 8 bells, hung at a cost of between £6,000 and £7,000: the east and south chancel windows are stained; on the south side of the chancel is a brass to Richard Becher Lecroft, d. Nov. 1862; in 1883 the carved rood-screen, removed some years since from the parish church of Crich, was; restored and new panels and gates added; the carved oak stalls and fittings of the chancel are from designs by the late George E. Street esq. R.A.: there will be 452 sittings. The churchyard has been planted with shrubs and trees, walks made and seats provided. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £290, including 11 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Rowland Smith esq. and four trustees, and held since 1890 by the Rev. John Ebsworth Matthews M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, and surrogate.

The church of St. Werburgh, in Friargate, formerly a building chiefly in the Classic style, with columns of the Tuscan order, was rebuilt in 1893—4, in the Late Decorated style, from designs by Sir A, W, Blomfield A.R.A, and now consists of the old chancel, with aisles, nave, aisles, and the former Gothic tower, containing a clock and 8 bells, six of which date from 1848, and one from 1605; there are two stained windows in the old chancel, the tesselated marble pavement of which is a memorial to Dr. James Heygate, who died in 1872; in the chancel is also a mural tablet to Gervaise Sleigh, ob. 1626, and a beautiful monument of white marble, with a female figure in high relief, by Chantrey, in memory of Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Lieut.-Col. E. C. Whinyates C.B., K.H. d. 28 April, 1828; the brass lectern, made in 1711 out of the old font cover, represents a pelican in her piety, and was the gift of Charles Benskyn; the stained east window is a memorial to Mr. S. Woolley; the pulpit of wrought iron was presented by Mr. Grimwood Taylor, and the Bishop’s chair, carved by Mr. A. Hunstone, of Tideswell, with a representation of St. Werburgh reading, surmounted by a mitre; the present was the gift of the vicar: the chancel screen and choir stalls were erected in 1898 by W. Ralph Smith esq.: the church possesses some fine old silver plate dating from the early part of the 17th century: there are 900 sittings. The register, the earlier portion of which is in bad condition, dates from 1588; it contains the record of the marriage of Dr. Samuel Johnson, which took place here on the 9th of July, 1735. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £480, including 2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1889 by the Right Rev, Edward Ash Were D.D. Bishop suffragan of Derby and prebendary of Southwell.

In addition to the above there are the following churches with districts attached: —

Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1849 from the civil parish of St. Werburgh; the church, standing at the corner of Normanton street, and erected in 1839—40, at a cost of about £3,500, from designs by Mr. Habershon, architect, of London, as a memorial to the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder D.D. Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, d. 1836, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch and a western tower with spire containing a clock and one bell; in the chancel, which is lighted by three stained lancet windows, are marble monuments to the Rev. Rosengrave Macklin M.A. for upwards of twenty years incumbent of the church, and to Mrs. Mary Slater Dalby, d. 18 March, 1860, and who left a sum of £1,300, the interest of which she directed to be expended in the repairs of the church: there are 820 sittings. The register dates from the year 1844. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £268, with residence, partly derived from seat rents, in the gift of five trustees, and held since 1887 by the Rev. John Haddon Askwith M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Holy Trinity ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1837 from the civil parish of St. Peter; the church, in the London road, and consecrated in 1836, is a structure of brick with stone dressings in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing one bell and a clock, erected in memory of the Rev. E. M. Wade, the first incumbent of this church; in 1878 the church was re-seated at a cost of £897: there are 800 sittings. The register dates from the year 1837. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £150, partly derived from pew rents, with residence, in the gift of five trustees, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Henry Martin B.A. of Corpus Christi college and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Royal Derby and Derbyshire Infirmary.

St. Andrew’s, Litchurch, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1867 from the civil pairish of St. Peter; the church in the London road was chiefly erected in 1886, from designs by the late Sir George Gilbert Scott R.A and is a building of stone, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave of four bays, with a clerestory, aisles, south porch and a lofty embattled tower on the north-west, with spire, and containing 8 bells; the tower and spire, erected in 1881, together with the bells, are estimated to have cost £5,000; there are 800 sittings. The register dates from the year 1867. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £330, net £324, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Alfred Hall Prior M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge, rural dean of Derby and surrogate.

St. Anne’s ecclesiastical parish was formed from the parish of St. Alkmund; the church, in Whitecross street, and erected in 1871—2, at a cost of £4,000, is a plain structure of brick in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and western turret containing one bell; there are twelve stained windows, six of which were presented by H. Worthington esq. in 1875, and three by Mrs. Worthington in 1894, in memory of her husband; the walls of the east end and sanctuary are decorated with fresco paintings, representing events in the life of Our Lord; the side chapel is also richly decorated, and the windows are filled with stained glass: there are 600 sittings. The register dates from the year 1873. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Ferris Utterson M.A. of St. John’s College, Oxford.

St. Barnabas is an ecclesiastical parish, formed out of that of St. John; the church, in Radbourne street, and erected in 1885—6, at a cost of £6,000, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting at present only of nave, aisles and a north porch; it contains a very remarkable and unique cruciform font, brought from West Hallam Hall, and said by tradition to have been used for the secret baptism of Romanists in the neighbourhood of West Hallam by the celebrated Jesuit, Father Edmund Campion, executed at Tyburn, 1 Dec. 1582; it does not appear to be of Derbyshire stone, and as there is no similar font in England it was probably introduced by one of the missionary priests from the continent, English fonts being at that period closed to Romanists: there are 700 sittings. The register dates from 1886. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Frederick Pasley Evans B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin.

St. Chad’s, Mill Hill, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed 1 Dec. 1882 from Christ Church and St. James the Great and part of Normanton; the church, consecrated in 1882, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, organ chamber and vestries; there are 1,000 sittings. The register dates from the year 1882. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £400, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Josiah William Dawes M.A. of Durham University.

St. James the Great is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1867 from the civil parish of St. Peter: the church, in Malcolm street, Litchurch, and erected in 1866, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north and south porches and a western turret containing one bell; the chancel is lighted by seven lancet windows, all of which are stained; there is also a memorial window in the nave with an inscribed brass to the Ven. Thomas Hill B.D. formerly archdeacon of Derby, d. 4 Sept. 1875, and another memorial window at the west end: an alabaster reredos with decorated canopy was erected in the chancel in 1885 at a cost of £500, left by will by the late G. P. Goodale, a former churchwarden, for this purpose: there are sittings for 700 persons. The register dates from the year 1867. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1894 by the Rev. Miles Hammett Pitts-Tucker M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

St. John’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed 9th March, 1847, from the civil parishes of All Saints, St. Alkmund, and St. Werburgh: the church in Bridge street, erected in 1828, at a cost of £7,500, as a chapel of ease to St. Werburgh, is an edifice of stone in the Late Perpendicular style, from designs by Mr. Francis Goodwin, architect, of London, and consists of apsidal chancel (added in 1871), nave, aisles, north and south porches and a small turret on the north-west, containing one bell: there are galleries on the north and south sides and at the west end: in the chancel are memorial windows to J. B. Massey, d. Dec. 1870; Charlotte Jones and Marion Catherine Chancellor, and one to the Rev. James Chancellor, d. 1889: there are also monuments to the Rev. Philip Gill M.A. for 17 years incumbent of this church, d. Jan. 1870; to the Rev. T. A. Scott, formerly incumbent, d. Feb. 1857; and to Mr. John Jones, founder of the Derby dispensary: the church was restored in 1891, at a cost of £1,570, and affords 1,110 sittings. The register dates from the year 1847. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £290, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of St. Werburgh, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Charles James Hamilton M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and hon. canon of Southwell.

St. Luke’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed 14 May, 1872, out of St. Werburgh: the church in Parliament street, was erected in 1870—1, as a memorial to the late Bishop Lonsdale, and is a building of stone in the later Early English style, from designs by Frederick J. Robinson, architect, consisting of apsidal chancel with crypt, nave of six bays, narrow aisles, serving simply as ambulatories, an organ chamber and vestry north of the chancel, west porch, and a saddle-roofed tower, 140 feet in height, at the south-west angle, serving also as an entrance, and containing a clock with chimes and 8 bells; on the south front of the tower are two canopied statues, one of St. Chad and one of the late Bishop Lonsdale; at the angles of the belfry floor are statues of the twelve apostles in groups of three: the nave is lighted by six plate tracery windows on the north and five of the same kind on the south, and by a large wheel window at the west end, the chancel having ten lancet windows with cuspings in the heads, the whole being stained, and those in the nave bearing the episcopal monogram: the crypt is completely fitted for divine service: the pulpit, of marble, in the form of an ambo, with steps on either side, was the gift of Miss Lonsdale: the organ was erected as a memorial to the foundress, Mrs. Frances Alice Moss: there are 750 sittings. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £240, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Reginald Heygate Scott Currey M.A. of Keble College, Oxford.

St. Thomas the Apostle, Litchurch, is an ecclesiastical district, formed Feb. 20, 1883, from the parish of St. James: the church in Pear Tree Road, and erected in 1881, at a cost of £6,200, from designs by Mr. Peacock, of London, is an edifice of brick and Coxbench stone in the Lombardo-Norman style, consisting of chancel, surmounted by a small turret containing one bell, nave, aisles, north porch and an inclosed arcade at the west end, affording two separate entrances: the site was given and the building erected at the sole cost of the Rev. Canon and Mrs. Alfred Olivier, as a memorial to her father, the late Ven. Archdeacon Thomas Hill, of Derby: there are 550 sittings. The register dates from the year 1883. The living was constituted a vicarage in 1889, gross yearly value £200, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1891 by the Rev. Francis John Adams B.A. of Durham University.

St. Augustine’s, Upper Dale road, the nave and one aisle of which was opened in 1898, is of red brick with Coxbench stone dressings, in the Early Decorative style, and will seat 450.

St. Barnabas Mission Room and Sunday schools, Langley street, is a brick building, erected in 1889 by the voluntary efforts of fifty-two working men in their own time; it affords 200 sittings.

The Catholic diocese of Nottingham includes Derbyshire.

St. Mary’s Catholic church, in, Bridge gate, erected in 1838, at a cost of £10,000, exclusive of the ground, which cost £1,400, is a stone building in the Perpendicular style, from designs by Pugin, and consists of apsidal chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, sacristies and an embattled tower with pinnacles, reaching an extreme height of 117 feet, and containing one bell weighing 19 cwt. and hung in 1853: the nave and aisles are separated by arcades carried on columns 18 feet in height, and support a clerestory lighted by 20 Perpendicular windows, arranged in pairs, 10 on each side: the apse has three stained windows: the church was enlarged and beautified in 1853, and has 550 sittings, 70 of which are free. A convent for Sisters of Mercy adjoins the church.

St. Joseph's Catholic church, in Gordon street, erected in 1879, is an edifice of brick, with stone dressings, in the Gothic style, and has 150 sittings.

Here are six Baptist chapels. The General Baptist chapel in the Osmaston road, erected in 1861, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, and a tower with spire: the chancel has stained windows, and the baptistery is fitted and lined with marble: there are sittings for 900 persons.

The General Baptist chapel in St. Mary’s gate, formerly the mansion of the Evans family, and erected in 1751, is a structure of brick and stone in the Classic style, and was purchased and converted to its present use in 1842 at a cost of £7,000: it stands in a large courtyard entered by a fine stone gateway, with gates of wrought iron of elegant design, which are much admired: the chapel has 1,200 sittings, 200 of which are free; attached is the manse and a large Sunday school and class rooms.

There are five Congregational chapels, that in Victoria street, erected in 1860, of stone, consists of chancel, nave, transepts and a tower with spire; there are 1,200 sittings, of which 100 are free: Normanton road chapel was erected in 1887, of red brick, in the Renaissance style, with two dwarf stair towers at the western end, one of which is surmounted by a small dome; there are 750 sittings.

The Primitive Methodists have several chapels, the Central chapel in St. Peter’s churchyard, erected at a cost of upwards of £4,000, is of white brick, with 800 sittings: Bourne, in Kedleston street, erected in 1870 at a cost of £5,500, is an edifice of brick and stone, with 900 sittings; connected with the chapel is a Benevolent Society, which provides and distributes £50 a year to the poor of the district.

The Wesleyan chapels comprise one in St. Peter’s churchyard, erected early in the present century, an edifice of red brick, with 750 sittings: Normanton road, erected in 1882, at a cost of £5,000, a cruciform edifice of brick with stone dressings, in the Early Gothic style, with an octagonal tower 90 feet high, and 800 sittings; attached is a lecture hall facing Normanton road, with a stained wheel window; there are also two large assembly rooms, and nine class rooms at the back: London road, erected in 1861, of red brick with stone dressings, and a gabled front, flanked by two turrets surmounted by short spires, and affording 850 sittings, 250 of which are free.

The Unitarian chapel, Friargate, was opened in the 17th century, and was renovated and improved by the erection of a portico, in 1890; there are 400 sittings, 200 of which are free: in the grounds at the back were interred the remains of Joseph Strutt, the donor of the Arboretum, together with those of his wife, to whose memory there is a tablet in the chapel.

The Friends’ Meeting House, St. Helen’s street, erected in 1808, is of stone, and has 300 sittings.

The cemetery, in the Uttoxeter New road, comprising an area of 4 ½ acres, was formed in 1842 at a cost of £4,500, and contains one mortuary chapel. The cemetery, on Chaddesden hill, covering an area of 43 acres, was formed in 1855 at a cost of £23,500, and contains two mortuary chapels. The Nottingham road cemetery, opened May 1855, and containing 35 acres, was enlarged in 1887 by 15 acres, and again in 1898 by an additional 9 acres; it has two mortuary chapels, erected in 1855. These cemeteries are under the control of a burial committee of the Corporation.

The Town Hall, on the south side of the Market place, and erected on a portion of the site of the old Town Hall, burnt down in 1841, forms a handsome pile, with a lofty tower in the centre, containing an illuminated clock, and having a carriage way beneath: the building includes a Guildhall or council chamber, police court, town clerk’s office, grand jury room, and several other apartments, which have been lighted with electricity.

The County Hall, St. Mary’s gate, is a building of stone, in which are held the county assizes and sittings in quarter sessions; likewise the petty sessions of the county magistrates for the Derby division, and the meetings of the county council. The sheriff’s court and judges lodgings are attached to the building, and comprise a large entrance hall, extending along both the Crown and Nisi Prius courts.

The Poor Law offices, in Becket street, erected in 1893 at a cost of £13,000, form a handsome building of freestone; the ground floor offices are occupied by the rate collectors and assistant overseers, and the first floor offices by the clerk to the guardians, Philip B. Chadfield esq.

Her Majesty’s Prison, built in 1827, at a cost of £65,000, occupies a site of about six acres in South street, near the Friargate, and is a building with a front elevation in the Grecian-Doric style; it consists of a central block, surrounded by radiating wings, in which are comprised the cells, workshops and other apartments, with airing-yards between: the prison is capable of holding 380 prisoners.

The County Lunatic Asylum, built in 1851, in the parish of Mickleover, 4 miles from this town, at a cost of £84,107 19s. 9d. and enlarged and improved at various periods since that date at a total cost of about £120,000, is a structure in the Elizabethan style, and will hold 600 patients.

The General Post and Telegraph Office, in Victoria street and St. James’ street, a building of stone, is one of the most attractive buildings in Derby.

Offices for the County Court, District Registry, High Court of Justice and Inland Revenue were erected in 1897 in St. Peter’s churchyard, and opened by Lord Halsbury, then Lord Chancellor.

The Corn Exchange, in Albert street, is a structure of brick, and besides its special purpose is also available for concerts and public meetings, it is also licensed for dramatic performances and is used by the Corn Exchange Theatre Company; the large hall is 88 feet by 53; it is surrounded within by spacious galleries, and has a platform 53 feet by 22; the hall will seat about 2,000 persons.

Derby is included in the North Eastern Military district, and is the depot of Regimental District No. 45, the head quarters and barracks locally at Normanton. Derby is also the head quarters of the Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry, offices, George street; and of the North Midland Infantry Volunteer Brigade and 1st Volunteer Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment), head quarters, Royal Drill Hall, Becket street.

The Royal Drill Hall, Becket street, built in 1869 by a limited liability company, for the use of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters, comprises a hall 150 feet by 75 feet, with ante and retiring rooms: the hall will seat 2,000 persons and has an orchestra constructed to hold 250 performers, with a fine-toned organ: the supper room, 45 feet by 20 feet, opens into a small gallery, overlooking the hall: in addition to these rooms, there are orderly rooms, sergeants’ quarters, armoury and stabling.

Derby has considerable manufacturing industries. A flat tract of land here, on the banks of the river Derwent, has been found peculiarly favourable for manufacturers requiring water power. Various mills have, in consequence, been established in the town or its immediate vicinity, for the production of silk, cotton and paper, as well as several iron foundries, saw mills, extensive malting-houses, tanneries and manufactories of white and red lead, paint, bricks and tiles, varnish and patent shot, but the most celebrated are those producing elastic web, silk and lace; clothing for the army, police and railway servants is also made here at the works of Messrs. James Smith and Co. Drewery lane.

The manufacture of porcelain was originally established here about the year 1750, by Mr. Duesbury, since whose decease great improvements have been effected, and the articles now produced are equal to those of the finest foreign workmanship. The celebrated “Crown Derby” ware is made principally by the Derby Crown Porcelain Co. in Osmaston road. Fluor spar, marble and alabaster, procured from the mountains of Derbyshire, are here made into a variety of articles for ornament and use.

The carriage factory of Messrs. Holmes and Co. in London road, occupies about 3 ¼ acres of ground, covered by large workshops and extensive show rooms, one of which is 1,300 feet long, 40 wide and two storeys high: the work executed here employs not less than 16 different classes of artisans, and the establishment includes a special department for heraldic painting; the firm has also branch establishments in London and at Lichfield, Sheffield and Burton-on-Trent. Silk making, now carried on to a considerable extent, owes its introduction into this country to the enterprise and skill of John Lombe and Sir Thomas Lombe, who in 1714, erected here the first silk mill in England: the factory stands at the bottom of Silkmill lane, on an island in the Derwent, and is built on large piles, supporting arches of stone; but the original machinery has been replaced by apparatus less cumbrous in its construction, and worked by a water wheel 23 feet in diameter; on the erection of this mill Mr. Lombe took out a patent for the manufacture of silk, having previously procured in Italy (where the art of silk-throwing was then exclusively practised) drawings and models of the silk machinery in use in that country, which he obtained by bribing two workmen, who accompanied him to England. The present proprietors of this celebrated mill are Messrs. Wigley and Co. There is, besides, a considerable trade in the manufacture of lace net, silk gloves and hose.

Here are seven banks:-Crompton and Evans’ Union Limited, Derby Old Bank, Irongate; Samuel Smith and Co. Market place; Parr’s Bank Limited, Corn market; The London City and Midland Bank Limited, St. Peter’s street; branch of Birmingham, District and Counties Banking Co. St. James’ street; branch of Nottingham and District Bank Limited, The Strand; and Lloyds Bank Limited, St. James’ street. The Savings Bank is situated in Friargate.

Races are held here three times a year, in March, September and November, on a straight level course on the Nottingham road. The county cricket and football matches are also played here.

The fairs are held Friday after January 6th, January 25th, March 21st, 22nd, 23rd, Friday after May 1st, Easter Friday, Whit Friday, July 25th. Cheese fairs are held the first Tuesday in February, April, June, August and October.

Markets are held every Tuesday and Friday, and a large market for the sale of meat and provisions on Saturday evening.

The Market Hall, situated behind the Guildhall, was erected in 1864, the foundation stone being laid Feb. 16 in that year, by Thomas Roe esq. mayor; the building is of red brick with stone dressings, and has four separate approaches: the interior contains 40 shops, each 12 feet square, besides a clear space of 186 feet by 86 feet for stalls: the entire length of the building is 210 feet by 112 feet in breadth; the roof being constructed of wrought-iron ribs, resting upon 22 pillars 20 feet in height, and covered in with glass and slate.

The Cattle Market, on the Holmes, stands on an island, and is approached from the town by an iron bridge across the canal. The cattle markets are held on Tuesday and Friday (the former for fat cattle), and are well attended.

The Derby Free Library and Museum, built with a residence for curator, in 1879, is a structure of red brick, in the Domestic Flemish Gothic style and was the free gift of the late Michael Thomas Bass esq. M.P. of Rangemore; the number of volumes in the library for the quarter ending Sept. 29th, 1898, was, in the lending library 19,977, and in the reference library 11,233.

The Corporation Art Gallery, situated in the Strand, and erected in 1883 by the late M. T. Bass esq. M.P. at a cost of £3,000, is a structure of brick with, terra-cotts dressings, consisting of two large rooms, the upper floor being devoted to the exhibition of oil paintings, and the lower to water colours and objects of art in general; three exhibitions are held annually: the gallery contains 448 pictures and lecture hall capable of holding 700 persons; the land on which the Gallery stands was presented by the late Sir Abraham Woodiwiss knt. J.P.

In the Market place is a statue in bronze, by the late Sir J. E. Boehm bart. R.A. of Michael Thomas Bass esq. M.P. for the borough of Derby (1848—83), who died in 1884: it is 9 feet in height, standing on a pedestal of Hollington stone, and was unveiled by the Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt P.C. 17 Oct. 1885.

The Grand Theatre, in Babington lane, erected in 1886 by Mr. Andrew Melville, at a cost of £20,000, is of brick in the Italian Renaissance style; the facilities for entrance and exit are considerable, there being nine pairs of double doors to the pit alone, with like provision for the circle and gallery; the theatre will hold 3,000 people.

The Derby Mechanics’ Institution, rebuilt in 1881 and enlarged and re-decorated in 1894, is a building in the Italian style, containing a large room for concerts and entertainments, a lecture room and reading and other rooms, as well as a valuable collection of oil paintings and a library of 8,000 volumes.

The Midland Railway Institute, in Railway terrace, is a large building of red brick and terra cotta, erected by the directors of the Midland Railway Company, and opened 15 Feb. 1895; it comprises a large lecture hall, reading room, library of 8,000 volumes, refreshment looms and billiard and class rooms, all open to members only, who must be servants of the company.

The Chamber of Commerce is at 24 Strand.

The Philosophical Society, established about the year 1772, is now united to the Free Library and Museum in Wardwick. There are also several book societies.

The Victoria Hall, in St. Peter’s churchyard, occupied by the Young Men’s Christian Association, is a handsome structure of brick, erected at a cost of £7,000, and opened March, 1895; the hall is available, for public purposes.

Derby was the birth-place or residence, about 1460, of Thomas Linacre M.D. fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a learned physician in the reign, of Henry VIII. who procured the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians, and established a medical professorship at Oxford, d. 20 Oct. 1524; Joseph Wright, an eminent painter, was torn here in 1734; Robert Buge, author of several novels; and in 1723, of William Hutton, the antiquary and topographer, d. 20 Sept. 1815; Thomas (Parker) 1st Earl of Macclesfield, chief justice of the Queen’s Bench and Lord Chancellor, commenced his career here as an attorney, and Dr. Erasmus Darwin, author of “The Loves of the Plants,” was also a resident in this town.

Charities:-There are several almshouses: Wilmot’s Hospital, for four poor men and women, each of whom has at allowance of about 4s. weekly; Large’s Hospital, for five clergymen's widows; Liversage’s. Almshouses, erected in 1836 out of the Liversage estate at a cost of £3,000, consist of 24 brick-built houses and a board-room and chapel; this charity, left by Robert Liversage in the year 1529, was, at the time, of small value, but now amounts to about £3,200 yearly, consisting of land and house property in and near Derby: the Almshouses, in the London road, will hold over 70 old men and women, selected from the parish of St. Peter’s only, by the trustees, now 21 in number: in addition to the Almshouses, a considerable sum is expended every year in the distribution of coal, clothing &c. amongst the poor of St. Peter’s: over £1,600 is given away yearly to in-door and out-door recipients. The following minor charities are under the control of the vicar and churchwardens of St. Peter’s, and are devoted to similar purposes:-Wilcox’s, of £14 17s. yearly; Brough’s, £1; Jackson’s, £2 10s.; Cundy’s, 2 10s.; Babington’s, £1; The Countess of Devonshire’s, 3 8s.; and Stables’, 5s. The Elvaston Charities were left by William Piggin in 1621, and Jacob Osborne in 1712, and consist of land &c. at Aston-on-Trent, and in Leicestershire.

Large’s Hospital Charity, in Friargate, was founded early in the last century by Edward Large, gentleman, of Derby, who by his will dated 1716, left money for the erection and endowment of almshouses for five poor parsons’ or vicars’ widows for ever. In 1721, Mary Broom of Derby, by will, endowed this charity with land. These devises having increased in value, in 1880 the trustees rebuilt the Almshouses, which now consist of five residences, pleasantly situated with gardens attached, and each inmate receives £60 per annum.

The Derbyshire Royal Infirmary was rebuilt in 1891, the foundation stone of the new institution being laid on 21st May by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. The administrative blocks and two of the ward blocks were opened by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire on the 7th July, 1894. The hospital is built on the Pavilion principal with a connecting glass corridor. There is a separate building for the nursing staff, opened by Miss Wilmot, 29 June, 1893. The number of in-patients admitted during the year ended 28th Sept. 1898, was 1,588, and of outpatients, 4,855; in the Eye department 161 in-patients and 2,176 out-patients were under treatment during the same period; there were also 3,228 casualty medical and surgical cases, 609 eye and 999 dental cases.

A Convalescent Home, to contain 28 beds, is now (1899) being erected at Holbrooke.

The Borough Infectious Hospital, about 1 ½ miles north-cast of Derby, stands on an elevated site of about 4 acres: the building, which is of red brick, was erected in 1890, and consists of four separate blocks, containing 58 beds, and ten others reserved for isolation: the grounds re planted with shrubs and flowers, and divided by broad well-kept walks and carriage drives: behind the hospital are mortuary, stables, surgery, engine shed and carriage house. There are six resident female nurses, matron and caretaker.

The Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children, in North street, Duffield road, erected in 1883, at a cost, including site, furniture and fittings, of £7,100, is a structure of red brick, from designs by Mr. A. MacPherson, of Derby, and contains beds for 40 patients, apartments for the lady superior and nurses, and room is provided in the basement for the reception of out-door patients: the number of in-patients admitted for the year 1897—98 was 199 in-patients, and 830 out-patients; the hospital is supported by voluntary contributions.

The Provident Dispensary, in St. Mary’s Gate, was established in 1830, and has now (1899) 2,273 members.

The Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum in the Nottingham road, founded in 1872, for the support of decayed members of the association, and built at a cost of £1,500, is a gabled structure of brick with stone dressings, and contains 5 separate residences: each inmate receives 10s. weekly: the site, valued at £460, was the gift of W. S. and S. W. Cox esqrs. of Spondon: there are now only three recipients of this charity, the remaining portion of the building being let off.

The Royal Deaf and Dumb Institution in Friargate, founded in 1879, had its origin in a small charity called the Deaf and Dumb Institution, established at Mount Pleasant in 1873 by the present headmaster, Dr. William Robert Roe: the present building erected at a total cost including site, of £20,000, was opened in 1894 by the Duchess of Rutland, and is certified under the Deaf and Blind Act for 150 children, there are now (1899) about 130 children: the institution not only boards, clothes and educates deaf and dumb children, but renders assistance to deaf and dumb persons of all ages, who are of good character: attached are recreation grounds of two acres.

The Railway Servants’ Orphanage.-This institution occupies a site five acres in extent, on the Ashbourne road, Derby, established on a modest scale in 1875, the handsome building was on its completion, opened in 1887 by the present Duke of Devonshire, and will hold 230 children, and there are 220 now in the home. Since its establishment 743 have been admitted, whose fathers were employed on 26 lines of railway in the United Kingdom. For sixteen years every eligible candidate has been admitted. Domestic work and manual training are carefully cultivated, in addition to the usual subjects of school instruction, and the 520 children who have left have, with very few exceptions, done well in life. In 1881 the orphanage became a branch of the Railway Benevolent Institution, but is mainly supported by separate contributions. Alderman G. Bottomley is the chairman, and Mr. Williams, secretary of the Midland Railway Company, the vice-chairman; Lord Claud J. Hamilton is the treasurer; and Mr. Thomas Hall is the secretary and manager.

The Arboretum, at Litchurch, presented to the town by the late Joseph Strutt esq. contains several acres, laid out in walks, and has been planted with a valuable collection of trees and shrubs, under the superintendence of the late Mr, Loudon, the eminent landscape gardener: this noble gift, valued at upwards of £10,000, is vested in trustees, upon the conditions securing for ever the benevolent objects of the donor: and in particular that the Arboretum shall be open to the public free.

The Recreation Ground, situated on the Holmes, and bounded by the Derwent and another stream, was the gift of the late M. T. Bass esq. M.P.

Derby, half a mile from the hamlet of Little Chester. The area of the borough is 3,450 acres. The area of the civil parish of Derby is 3,327 acres of land and 82 of water; rateable value in 1899, £443,831.

The population of the borough in 1891 was as follows—

The borough in 1841 contained 32,741 inhabitants; in 1851, 40,609; and in 1861, 43,091, and with the out town, ships, 52,606.Stolen from Fore bears

+ Including 112 in the General Infirmary.

++ Including 163 in C.M. Prison.

* Including 516 officers and inmates in the Workhouse, and 315 in Borough Lunatic Asylum.

The population of the municipal wards in 1891 was-Arboretum, 15,352; Babington, 11,386; Becket, 17,460; Castle, 10,914; Derwent, 5,666; Friargate, 12,251; Kingsmead, 13,078; and Litchurch, 8,039.

Petty Sessions are held at the County hall every Friday at 11 a.m. . The following places are included in the division:-Allestree, Ash, Aston, Alvaston, Barrow, Boulton, Beardwardcote, Brailsford, Breadsall, Breaston, Burnaston, Chaddesden, Chellaston, Darley Abbey, Dalbury, Draycott, Egginton, Elvaston, Etwall, Findern, Hopwell, Kedleston, Kirk Langley, Little Eaton, Littleover, Long Eaton, Mackworth, Markeaton, Mickleover, Mugginton, Normanton, Ockbrook, Osmaston, Quarndon, Radbourne, Ravensdale Park, Risley, Sawley, Sinfin Moor, Sinfin & Arleston, Spondon, Swarkestone, Trusley, Twyford & Stenson, Weston Underwood, Weston-on-Trent, Willington, Wilne & Shardlow.

Water Works Office (Corporation), Municipal offices, Babington lane; John Ward, engineer; Henry Cope, 9 Lome street; William Duesbury, 15 Holmes street to Edwin J. Brown, 85 Abbey street, collectors.

DERBY UNION

The poor law offices, as well as those of the superintendent registrar of marriages, are in Becket street.

The Derby union comprises the parishes of Derby & Darley Abbey, taking the place (April 15, 1898) of the old parishes forming the union; rateable value, £443,831.

Board meet every Tuesday at 2.30 p.m.

The Workhouse, about 1 ½ miles from the town, near the Uttoxeter road, was completed in 1878, and is a plain brick building with stone dressings, with a large central clock tower & is built in four separate blocks, including vagrant & receiving wards, infirmary & schools.

Yeomanry Cavalry

Derbyshire (6th Yeomanry Brigade), head quarters, 7 George street Lieut.-Col. W. R. Chandos-Pole, commanding; Sir P. C. Walker bart. major.

VOLUNTEERS

North Midland Volunteer Infantry Brigade.

Head quarters, Royal Drill hall, Becket street.

Comprising: —

1st Volunteer Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, Lincoln.

2nd Volunteer Battalion, Lincolnshire Regt. Grantham.

1st Volunteer Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Derbyshire Regiment, Derby.

2nd Volunteer Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Derbyshire Regiment, Chesterfield.

1st Notts Rifle Volunteer Corps (Robin Hood), Nottinghm.

4th (Nottinghamshire) Volunteer Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Derbyshire Regiment, Newark.

Supply Detachment, Bearer Company.

Commanding Brigade, Col. Viscount Newark M.P.

Aide-de-Camp, Capt. R. C. Otter (4th V. B. Derby Regt.).

Brigade Major, Hon. Lieut.-Col. C, G. A. Mayhew.

Supply & Transport Officer, Capt. W. G. Middleton (1st Notts V. R. C.)

Senior Medical Officer, Brigade-Surgeon-Lieut.-Col. T. L. Gentlea V.D. (1st V. B. Derby Regiment).

1st Volunteer Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) (comprising A, B, C, D, H, I & K, Derby; E, Butterley; F, Codnor Park; G, Belper; L, Long Eaton & M, Ilkeston), head quarters, Royal Drill hall, Becket street: Hon. Col. G. Gascoyne V.D. Commandant.

PLACES OF WORSHIP.

Churches.

*** (v.), signifies Vicarage.

All Saints (v.), Irongate, Rev. Jonathan Howell M.A.; pop. in 1891, 2,499; 10.45 a.m. . & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Christ Church (v.), Normanton Road, Rev, John Haddon Askwith M.A.; pop. in 1891, 8,034; 10.30 a.m. . & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.

Holy Trinity (v.), London road, Rev. Henry Martin B.A.; patron. Trustees; value, £260; pop. in 1891, 6,900; 11 a.m. . & 6 30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. Alkmund (v.), St. Alkmund’s churchyard, Rev. John Stanley Owen T.A.C.K.L.; pop. in 1891, 6,170; 10.45 a.m. . & 3.15 & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

St. Andrew, Litchurch (v.), London road, Rev. A. H. Prior M.A.; pop. in 1891, 5,838; 9 & 11 a.m. . & 2.15 & 6.30 p.m.; wed, 7.30 p.m.

St. Anne’s (v.), Whitecross street, Rev. Ferris Utterson M.A.; pop. in 1891, 5,362; 7 & 8 a.m. . holy communion; matins, 10.15 & service, 11 a.m. .; & 2.45 & 6.30 p.m.; holy communion, Mon. Tue. Thur. & Sat. 7.30 a.m. .; Wed. 7 & 8 a.m. .; Fri. 7 a.m. .; matins, 10 a.m. .; evensong, Mon. Tue. & Fri. 7.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.; Thur. & Sat. 5 p.m.

St. Augustine’s, Upper Dale road, Rev. C. E. Alford, curate in charge; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 8 p.m.

St. Barnabas’ (v.), Radbourne street, Rev. Frederick Pasley Evans B.A.; pop. in 1891, 4,754; 8 & 11 a.m. . & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 10.30 a.m. . & Wed. 8 p.m.

St. Chad’s (v.), Mill hill, Rev. Josiah William Dawes M.A.; pop. in 1891, 7,959; 8 & 10.45 a.m. . & 2.45 & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. James the Great (v.), Malcolm street. Rev. Miles Hammett Pitts-Tucker M.A.; pop. in 1891, 9,171; 11 a.m. . & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 8.30 a.m. . & 7.30 p.m.

St. John (v.), Bridge street, Rev. Charles James Hamilton M.A.; pop. in 1891, 5,301; 8, & 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m. .; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. Luke’s (v.), Parliament st. Rev. Reginald Heygate Scott Currey M.A.; pop. in 1891,8,556; 8,10 & 11 a.m. . & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 10 a.m. . & 8 p.m. except Saturday; Thur. 10.30 a.m. .

St. Michael (v.), Queen street, Rev. Harry Roger Rolfe; patron, Bishop of Southwell; value, £174; pop. in 1891, 705; 7, 8 & 10 45 a.m. . & 3.15 & 6.30 p.m.; daily at 7.30 a.m. . & 8.0 p.m.

St. Paul's (v.), Mansfield road. Little Chester, Rev. William Henry Symonda B.A.; pop. in 1891, 3,516; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. Peter (v.), St. Peter street, Rev. John Ebsworth Matthews M.A. vicar & surrogate; patrons, Trustees; value, £290; pop. in 1891, 7,269; 11 a.m. . & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. Thomas the Apostle, Litchurch (v.), Pear Tree road, Rev. Francis John Adams B.A.; pop. in 1891, 6,759; 11 a.m. . & 2.45 & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.

St. Werburgh (v.), Friargate, Right Rev. Edward Ash Were D.D.; pop. in 1891, 4,506; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 pm.; 10 a.m. , & 5.30 p.m. daily.

St. Mary’s Catholic, Bridgegate, Rt. Rev. Monsignor Arthur McKenna V.G. & Rev. Thomas Byrne, priests; 8, 9.30 & in a.m. . & 3.15 & 6.30 p.m.; daily mass, 8 а.m.; holy days of obligation mass, 5.15, 8 & 11 a.m. .; thurs, devotions, 8 p.m.

St Joseph’s Catholic, Gordon street, Rev. Francis Ffrench, rector; 5 & 9 a.m. . & 8 p.m. Friends’ Meeting House, St. Helen’s street, 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

English Presbyterian, Green lane, Rev. David Macdonald M.A., B.D. minister; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Baptist (Trinity), Greenhill, Rev. Wm. Fredk. Harris; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 400.

Baptist (General), Junction street, Rev. P.A. Hudgell; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m. sets, 400.

Baptist (General), Osmaston road. Rev. Jas. Howard; 10.45 & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m. sets, 900.

Baptist (General), Rutland street. Pear tree; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Tue. 7.30 p.m. sets, 180.

Baptist (General ), St. Mary’s gate. Rev. Abraham Mills; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m. sets, sets, 1,200.

Baptist (General), Watson street; 10.45 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m. sets, 200.

Catholic Apostolic, 128 Burton rd. 10.30 a.m. . & 5 p.m.

Christadelphian, Athenaeum buildings, Victoria street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m. sets, 250.

Congregational, Derwent st. east. Rev. George Pagett; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 300.

Congregational, London rd. Rev. John Pandy Williams; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 1,000.

Congregational, Normanton road. Rev. John William Hodgson; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 750.

Congregational, Victoria st. Rev. George Hunsworth M.A.; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Mon. & Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 1,200.

Methodist New Connexion, London rd. Rev. Daniel Brearley; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Thur. 8 p.m. sets, sets, 600.

Plymouth Brethren, Curzon street; 6.30 p.m. sets, 120.

Primitive Methodist, Campion street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Thur. 7 30 p.m. sets, 2000.

Primitive Methodist, Dean street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m. sets, 300.

Primitive Methodist, Graham street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 250.

Primitive Methodist, Kedleston street, Rev. George Jones; 10.30a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 900.

Primitive Methodist, Lower Dale road; 10.45 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Mansfield street, served from Kedleston street; 10.45 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Mon. 8 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Traffic street, Rev. John G. Goodridge & Rev. George T. Fawcett; 10.45 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m. sets, 900.

Primitive Methodist (Central Church), St. Peter’s churchyard. Rev. Isaac Brentnall; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m. sets, 800.

Salvation Army (No. 3 depot), 64 Siddals road & Church street.

Unitarian, Friargate, Rev. John Birks F.G.S.; 11 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m. sets, 400.

United Methodist Free Church, Becket street. Rev. Joseph W. Booker; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 650.

United Methodist Free Church, Brook street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Tue. 7.30 p.m. sets, 600.

Wesleyan, Ashbourne road. Rev. Fredk. Read Duffill; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 730.

Wesleyan, King street. Rev. John Henry Loxley; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 1,500.

Wesleyan, London road. Rev. William John Boote; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 850.

Wesleyan, Lynton street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan, Normanton road; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 800.

Wesleyan, St. Peter’s churchyard. Rev. William Wilson, supt.; Rev. W. J. Boote & Rev. J. G. Benson; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m. sets, 750.

Wesleyan, Russell street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Thur. 7 p.m. sets, 200.

Mission Rooms

All Saints’, Ford st. served from All Saints; 6.30 a.m. .; Thur. 8 p.m.

Holy Trinity, Liversage street, Rev. Henry Martin; 6 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

St. Alkmund’s, Cedar street; 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.

St. Aidan’s, Kedleston road; 8 & 11 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.

St. Andrew’s, Calvert st. Rev. A. H. Prior M.A.; 6.30 p.m.

St. Barnabas, Langley street, served from St. Barnabas; 11 a.m. . (children).

St. Dunstan’s, Osmaston road; 11 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. George’s, Firs estate. Rev. George H. Webber B.A. curate in charge; 8 & 11 a.m. .; & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 10.30 a.m. . & 8 p.m.

St. Werburgh’s, Kensington street, served from St. Werburgh’s; 6.15 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Baptist, Boyer street; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.

Congregational, Ashbourne road, Rev. James Kendall Kirby; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Tue. 8 p.m.

Christadelphians, St. James Hall, St. James street; 3 p.m.

Derby Railway, Midland road; 2.30 & 6.15 p.m.

Iron Tent, Normanton road; 10.45 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Mon. 8 p.m.

Newton’s Mission, 19 William street.

Theatre Gospel, Bold lane, 3 p.m.

United Methodist Free Church, Corden street, ministers various; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Plymouth Brethren, Princes’ hall, 12 Princes’ st.; 6.30 p.m.

Stafford Street Gospel Hall; 6.30 p.m.

Zion, Mount street; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

SCHOOLS

Derby School.-Walter Durdant, Bishop of Lichfield, in his charter speaks of the Derby School as the gift of himself & William de Barba, Aprilis: some years afterwards, whilst Richard Peche was Bishop of Lichfield, Walkelin de Derby & Goda his wife gave the mansion in which they dwelt, & which Walkelin had purchased of William Alsin, to the canons of Darley on condition that the hall should be for ever used as a schoolroom & the chambers for the dwelling of the masters & clerks. The school was subsequently given to the corporation of Derby, in trust, in 1554, by Queen Mary, together with a part of the possessions of the abbey of Darley for its foundation, specially charging the estate of Little Chester with the annual payment of £13 6s. 8d. to the master & usher: Mrs, Jane Walton, the widow of Archdeacon Walton (who died in 1603), bequeathed to the bailiffs & common council of Derby £40 for the better relief of the headmaster, “so as the stock may continue for that use for ever:” Mr. Crashaw left £20 a year for a lectureship at All Saints’ Church to the master of the school. Until the year 1862 the school was kept up in a small building close to St. Peter’s church & this had probably been its locality for some centuries, but in that year St. Helen’s, the residence of Lord Belper, was purchased by the corporation & by public subscription for a school-house, & the school was thus removed to the very spot on which it had been originally established in the reign of Henry II. A fine block of buildings, comprising a large school-room, class-rooms, dormitories & masters’ rooms have been added in commemoration of the visit paid to the school in 1872 by the Prince & Princess of Wales, and a handsome chapel, science laboratory, and sanatorium have also been erected. The School farm & playing fields are pleasantly situated by the river side, a few minutes’ walk, from the school. There are four Rowland scholarships of £25 yearly, tenable for two years; two Whitworth scholarships of £15 yearly, also for two years, besides several valuable House scholarships & choral exhibitions, maintained from the annual income of the school. There are at present (1899) 150 boys in the school: amongst its distinguished alumni may be named Alleyne (Fitzherbert), baron St. Helen’s M.A., G.C.B, the eminent diplomatist; William Juxon, Bishop of London & Archbishop of Canterbury; John Flamsteed M.A. the first Astronomer Royal; Sir John Eardley Wilmott kt. chief justice of the common pleas; & Anthony Blackwell M.A. sometime headmaster & author of “Sacred Classics”

The school was reconstituted as a first grade school under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners A.D. 1879: C. H. Smith & (violin) T. B. Smith, music teachers; & F. L. Sowter, clerk to the governors, 25 Irongate.

Municipal Technical College, School of Art, Green lane, Thomas C. Simmonds, headmaster; sec. vacant.

Lichfield & Southwell Diocesan College for Training School Mistresses, Uttoxeter New road, opened in 1851, is a red brick building, with adjacent grounds, & will hold 85 students, who are admitted for two or three years’ training: there are practising schools in connection with the college for girls & infants. Three or more scholarships and numerous prizes are annually awarded. Committee of Management:-The Bishops of Lichfield, Southwell, Shrewsbury & Derby, the Dean of Lichfield, the Archdeacons of Stafford, Stoke, Derby, Salop & Nottingham & 17 other clerical & lay members.

Diocesan School, Friargate, Rev. Canon Massey M.A. sec.; Fred Adcock, headmaster.

School Board

Offices, Becket street.

A School Board of 13 members was formed in 1871; the board meet every third Monday in the month at 3.30 p.m.

Clerk, William Cooper A.C.A. Becket street.

School Officers, Herbert Martin, 28 Uttoxeter New road; Henry Hall, 67 Arundel street; Herbert Bennett, 49, Franchise street; & Herbert Webster, 14 Melbourne st.

Board Schools

Gerard street (higher grade), erected in 1873, & enlarged, in 1895, for 1,800 children; average attendance, 487 senior boys, 430 senior girls, 435 junior mixed department & 252 infants.

Ashbourne road (mixed, girls & infants), erected in 1879, & enlarged in 1895, for 1,264 mixed & 401 infants; average attendance, 1,196 mixed & 386 infants.

Firs estate, erected 1887, for 750 boys & 400 girls & 400 infants; average attendance, 600 boys & 350 girls & 330 infants.

Nun street (mixed), erected in 1875 for 550 children, & enlarged in 1886 for 950 children; average attendance, 434 boys & girls & 63 infants.

Orchard street, erected in 1812 for 600 children; average attendance, 198 boys & girls & 204 infants.

Pear Tree road (mixed), erected in 1899, for 920 children.

St. James’ road, erected in 1880 & enlarged in 1895; average attendance, 442 senior boys, 370 senior girls, 357 junior boys, 255 junior girls & 430 infants.

Traffic street, erected in 1879 for 1,000 children; average attendance, 418 senior mixed, 223 junior mixed & 271 infants.

National Schools

All Saints’ (mixed), Walker lane, erected for 340 children; average attendance, 250 boys, 89 girls & 98 infants.

Christ Church, Burton road, erected in 1851, for 284 boys, 184 girls & 190 infants; average attendance, 226 boys, 173 girls & 190 infants.

St. Alkmund’s, Edward street, King street, erected in 1852, for 180 girls & 140 infants; average attendance, 120 girls & 98 infants.

St. Andrew’s (mixed), London road, erected in 1863, for 650 children; average attendance, 650.

St. Anne’s, Whitecross street, erected in 1875 & enlarged in 1886 & 1890, for 280 girls & 280 infants; average attendance, 136 boys & 150 infants.

St. Anne’s, Leyland street, for 190 boys; average attendance, 173.

St. Chad’s (mixed) (higher grade), Gordon street, erected in 1888, at a cost of £3,000, for 450 boys & girls & 230 infants; average attendance, 600.

St. Dunstan’s (mixed), Graham street, erected in 1881, for 230 boys & 250 girls; average attendance, 133 boys & 112 girls.

St. Dunstan’s (infants), Osmaston road, erected in 1888, for 170 children; average attendance, 168.

St. James’ (girls & infants), Rose Hill street, erected in 1863, for 391 children; average attendance, 251 girls & 276 infants.

St. James’ (boys) (higher grade), Malcolm street, erected in 1887 & enlarged in 1896, for 550 children; average attendance, 380.

St. John’s (mixed & infants). Mill street, erected in 1840 & enlarged in 1893, for 600 children; average attendance, 315 mixed & 240 infants.

St. Luke’s (boys), Peet street, erected in 1881, for 320 boys; average attendance, 190.

St. Luke’s, Stockbrook street, erected in 1868, for 250 girls & 270 infants; average attendance, 206 girls & 195 infants.

St Mark’s (girls & infants). Pear Tree street, erected in 1874, for 290 children; average attendance, 108 girls & 149 infants.

St. Paul’s (mixed), Mansfield street, erected for 572 children; average attendance, 136 boys, 103 girls & 125 infants.

St. Peter’s (girls & infants), Devonshire street, erected in 1861 & rebuilt in 1894, for 240 girls, average attendance 201; & 260 infants, average attendance 146.

St. Thomas’ (girls), Richmond road, for 140 children; average attendance, 186.

St. Werburgh’s (mixed & infants), Curzon street, erected in 1839, for 506 children; average attendance, 235 boys & girls & 90 infants.

Trinity (mixed), Church lane, erected in 1837, for 1,000 children; average attendance, 180 boys, 137 girls & 169 infants.

St. Joseph’s Catholic, Gordon street, erected in 1879, & enlarged in 1894, for 150 children; average attendance, 137.

St. Mary’s Catholic, Edward street, erected in 1853, for 600 children; average attendance, 98 boys, 149 girls & 134 infants.

Wesleyan Higher Grade, Canal street, London road, erected in 1857, for 1,020 children; average attendance, 553; boys 232, girls 162 & infants 159.

Wesleyan (mixed), Parliament street, erected for 250 children; average attendance, 200.