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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery |
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Some new discoveries |
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Abel Dean. No 183. |
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A gifted and versatile musician: organist at Square Chapel, co-founder of the Dean Clough Glee and Madrigal society, and for 30 years the popular conductor of the Sunday School Jubilees that annually filled the Piece Hall with 560 instruments, 25,000 voices, and large audiences. |
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John Marchant |
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1820- 80 |
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No 3303. |
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Followed his father to be the second governor of the Hanson Lane Debtor’s Gaol. |
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(from descendants Mrs Robson and Mrs Powers of Huddersfiled Rd.) |
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Congregational Minister of Square Church, well known for his passionate preaching and aversion to the “ungodly and atheistical” Sunday band concerts on Skircoat Moor. |
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Of Whitworth’s Mill at Luddenden Foot. Mayor of Halifax, Vice-chair of the Mechanics Institute. Died while out riding his pony in the Welsh hills, having first tied the pony to a tree. |
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Christopher Shackleton |
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Another prominent Chartist, Shackleton of Queensbury, secretary of the West Riding Chartist Association, was “considered the finest speaker in the district.. a very able writer and debater.” (Ben Wilson). Buried next to fellow Chartist Ben Rushton. |
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Newsletter Summer 2008 Page 2 |
