HOYLE

William . b. valley of Ro endale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton spinner with his father at Brooks bottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9; cotton spinner at Tolling ton near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance reformer, a Good Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury 1880; wrote an annual letter to The Times on the “national drink bill of succe ive years”; built a residence at Claremont near, Bury; author of Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies and bands of hope 1869; Our national resources and how they are wasted 1871, four editions; Crime in England and Wales in the nineteenth century 1876 and of 13 other books. d. South port, Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p. 8.