MOLES WORTH

John Edward Na au (only son of John Moles worth). b. London 4 Feb. 1790; ed. at Green wich and Trin. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. and D.D. 1838; C. of Mill brook, Hampshire 1812–28; C. of Wicks worth, Derby shire 1828 for two months only; V. of St. Martin’s with St. Paul, Canterbury 1829–39; one of the six preachers at Canterbury 1829; V. of Minster-in-Thanet 1839; V. of Rochdale 3 March 1840 to death; promoted the Rochdale vicarage act 1866 by which the 13 chapels of ease were converted into parish churches and their endowments raised; contributed to the British magazine and Encyclopædia Metropolitan a; editor of The penny Sunday reader. Canterbury 14 vols. 1835–41, and of Common sense or everybody’s magazine 2 vols. 1842–43; author of The rick-burners, a tale 1830; Over bury, or some advantages of an established church, a tale 1834, 2 ed. 1860; The pulpit pocket companion and liturgical companion 1836; Resistance to church rates, a letter to the people of England 1836, 5 ed. 1854; The domestic chaplain, sermons on family duties 2 vols. 1838; The parish church 1842 and 30 other books. d. Rochdale vicarage 21 April 1877. bur. St. Martin’s, Cast let on Moor, Lancs. Raines’s Vicars of Rochdale ( Chetham Soc. 1883), ii 325–76.