SIR JAMES

b. at Rochdale, 1804, d, 1877; wa a pioneer of popular education in Englan¢ He was instrumental in persuading th local authority of Manchester to adop me ures for the improvement of th aa! conditions of the mill worker: Ife took a leading part in the movemen for “ educating the pcople,”” and was th first secretary of the Committee of th Privy Counc) on Education. 1839. H may be rezarded as the father of th pupil-teacher system in England, and th author of the celebrated Minutes of th Council on Education, 1846. [s. 189]