was a cotton merchant, in Exchange-street, Manchester. After realising, by industry and integrity, an ample fortune in his native town, he retired from the bustle of business, and at his death, April 27, 1828, aged eighty-five years, he devised the residue of his property, amounting to upwards of £10,000, to the Manchester Infirmary, in addition to two previous bequests of £7,500, and £2,500 to the same charity, besides a bequest of £4,000 to the Manchester House of Recovery. As is truly said on his monument in the Collegiate Church, Manchester, he, "some years before his death, after satisfying the claims of distant kindred and immediate dependants, adopted the sick and needy as his children," and at his death, bequeathed the residue of his substance for their permanent relief. Lower Newearth is now the property of Mr. John Seville, of Side-of-moor. Higher Newearth belonged, in 1747, to a Mr. Whitehead, but became the property of the late James Lees, Esq., J.P., of Higher Clarksfield, in whose family it is still vested. Fold, Side-of-moor, was, in 1752, the abode of the yeomanry family of Broadbent. Daniel Broadbent, yeoman, who died in 1784, was the progenitor of Mr. Thomas Broadbent, now of Hopwood mill. Wildes adjacent to Croft-bank, received its name from the Wild family, who lived here in the seventeenth century, if not earlier, for there was a Philip Wyld, of Oldham, in 1486. The place new belongs to the Right Hon. Earl Howe, in right of his descent from Sir Ralph Assheton, of Middleton. Lane End, adjoining to Fowleach, was an old habitation of the Ogdens - their ancestors were resident here in the reign of Charles the Second. Theophilus Ogden, yeoman, of Lane-end, died in 1723. In 1762, another Theophilus Ogden, was the possessor. Fowleach afforded an habitation to the Winterbottoms.. A Richard Winterbottom held lands near School-croft, in Oldham, in 1606; and in 1688,Thomas Winterbottom possessed property at or near Gouldburn. James Winterbottom, yeoman, of Fowleach, was living 1724.

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