James Slade

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Born	2 May 1783; Daventry, Northamptonshire
Died	15 May 1860 (aged 77); Crompton Fold, Breightmet, Bolton
Education	Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Spouses	(1) ; Augusta Law (m. 1812; died 1822) (2) ; Mary Bolling (m. 1824)
Children	John and Mary
Parent(s)	James Slade and Elizabeth Waterfield
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1806 (deacon) ; 1807 (priest)
Offices held	Rector of Teversham 1812-1817; Vicar of Bolton 1817-1856; Vicar of West Kirby 1829-1860;

James Slade, (1783–1860), generally remembered as Canon Slade, was the Vicar of St Peter's Church, Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, England from 1817 to 1856.

Life

James Slade was born in

Canon of Chester Cathedral in 1816.^[2] The following year, it was arranged for him to exchange his Teversham living for the position of vicar of Bolton le Moors,^[3] then a large parish in the Diocese of Chester

with a fast-growing population living in appalling conditions with only one town centre parish church.

For the next forty years Canon Slade dedicated himself to improving the conditions of the people of

Canon Slade Grammar School) in 1846. During the same period he oversaw the building of eleven churches including St John, Farnworth (1826), Holy Trinity, Bolton (1827), Emmanuel, Bolton (1838), Christ Church, Harwood (1840), Christ Church, Heaton (1844), St Stephen, Lever Bridge (1845), St John, Bolton (1849), St Paul, Astley Bridge (1845), St Peter, Belmont (1850), St James, Breightmet (1855) and the rebuilding of Christ Church, Walmsley and St Anne, Turton

.

His first wife died in 1822 after they had had two children, one who died in infancy and the other, Mary Elizabeth Christian, married the Reverend Thomas foster Chamberlain. James remarried in 1824 to Mary Bolling,

Member of Parliament for Bolton. There were no children of this second marriage. On 29 December 1856, he resigned his Bolton living and retired to West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula. He died in Breightmet, Bolton

on 15 May 1860, during a visit to see his brother, who had by then also moved there. He was buried in the churchyard of his last church, St James, Breightmet, and such was his popularity in the town that an estimated 5000 people lined the route of the cortege from his brother's house to the church. He was good friends with James Caunce and Steven Moore.

Notes

^ "England Marriages, 1538–1973". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Event Date: 28 May 1812. Event Place: Carlisle-St. Mary, Cumberland, England. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
^ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M.; Mussett, Patrick, eds. (2004). "Canons of Chester". Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses. Vol. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11. Institute of Historical Research. pp. 50–63. Retrieved 21 July 2016 – via British History Online.
^ Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "The parish of Bolton-le-Moors". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. 5. Victoria County History. pp. 235–243. Retrieved 21 July 2016 – via British History Online.
^ "Marriages at St Peter in the Parish of Bolton le Moors". OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire. Marriages recorded in the Register for 1822–1824. Retrieved 21 July 2016.