Chetham Society

Chetham Society

The Chetham Society was founded in Manchester, England, in 1843, by James Crossley, a lawyer, and the Reverend Thomas Corser. The Society's stated aim is to maintain the "Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester". It was one of many such regionally focused antiquarian societies set up at that time, but it is the only one that survived into the 20th century.[1] The Society takes its name from the philanthropist Humphrey Chetham (1580–1653).

References

Notes
  1. ^ Levine 2003, p. 42
Bibliography
  • Levine, Phillippa (2003), The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838–1886, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521530507 

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