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Title: The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kendall, H. B. (Holliday Bickerstaffe), 1844-1919
Subjects: Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) Methodists
Publisher: London : E. Dalton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ed journalist who seems tohave taken all knowledge for his province and who is a candid friend of our Church,should have admitted that William Clowes he thought he knew, but he was not surethat he had got to the true inwardness of Hugh Bourne. We judge that every onewho has made a careful study of the mechanism and movements of Hugh Bournesmind would have to make a similar confession. Though no completer contrasts than Bourne and Clowes presented can well beimagined, their lives had certain points of coincidence.- Both were true Staffordshiremen—scions of families long rooted in that county. If, as has been repeatedly said,Bourne had Norman blood in his veins and came of a stock that once held considerablelanded estates, so, on his mothers side, Clowes claimed kinship with a family of con-sideration that any one might be proud to belong. His mother was born Ann Wedgwood,and belonged to the family which did so much to extend and improve the ceramic art. 46 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH.
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SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 47 Who does not know the famous Wedgwood ware 1 Through his mother, Clowescould claim relationship with Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of Etruria, the bearer, by royal grant and the good pleasure of QueenCharlotte, of the title of the QueensPotter, the promoter of roads and muni-ficent patron of the Grand Junction Canal,by which Trent and Mersey and Severnwere linked together. Clowes grand-father, Aaron Wedgwood, in partnershipwith his brother-in-law, Mr. William Littler,made costly experiments to improve thewhite stone-ware of the district, and after-wards won the distinction of producingthe first china-ware at Longton, nearStoke-on-Trent. The Clowes family had to be contentwith the reflected glory of their house, fornothing more substantial fell in their wayas the result of their connections on thespindle-side. If Clowes could recordwith pardonable pride, how some of hisforbears, in 1740, built the largest housein Burslem, The Big House—and, hemight have added, o

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