PRENTICE

Archibald (son of Archibald Prentice of Coving ton Mains, in the upper ward of Lan arks hire, farmer). b. Coving ton Mains 17 Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, Glasgow 1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner in the busine on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a weekly paper entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed, published, and edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824, bankrupt 1826, the Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester Times 17 Oct. 1828, of which he was sole manager to 1847, when he sold the paper; chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at York hotel, Manchester 24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the Manchester gas office 1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester temperance league 1857; edited The life of Alexander Reid, a Scottish covenanter 1822; author of A tour in the United States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-law league 1853. d. Park view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24 Dec. 1857. A. Prentice’s Historical sketches of Manchester (1851); Mac mill an’s Mag. Oct. 1889 pp. 435–43; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 204–8.