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- [S70] Parish registers for Sculcoates, 1537–1914, (East Yorkshire Archive Service, Ref. PE 46/1-53, 60-64, 68-73, 76/2-13), Ref. PE 46/4, Baptisms, 1790–1806, page 40, 23 Aug. 1797.
"[1797. Augt.] 23. Willm. S. of Willm. & Mary Huntington, merct., born Jany. 4 1797."
- [S73] Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, John Venn, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., and J. A. Venn, M.A., (Cambridge, 1940–54), volume III (1947), page 495.
"HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM. Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Oct. 28, 1814. S. of William. B. at Hull. School, Hull. Matric. Michs. 1816; Scholar, 1819; B.A. 1820; M.A. 1826. Ord. deacon, 1822; priest, 1826. Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Zetland. R. of St John's, Manchester, 1831–74. Surrogate, dio. Manchester. Author, Sermons, etc. Disappears from Crockford, 1876. (Clergy List.)"
- [S74] The Annals of Manchester, William E. A. Axon (ed.), (London & Manchester: John Heywood, 1886), page 340.
"The Rev. William Huntington, M.A., rector of St. John's Church, Deansgate, died May 13, aged 77 years. Mr. Huntington was born in Hull in 1797, and was one of the few remaining representatives of a family which had settled in Yorkshire several centuries ago, and whose ancestors had filled the honourable offices of mayors and sheriffs of their native town in the reigns of Henry VII. and Edward VI. He was appointed curate of St. John's by the first rector, the Rev. John Clowes, in 1828. At his death, in 1831, Miss Byrom, the daughter of the founder of the church, presented him to the rectory; and these two clergymen have, between them, occupied the office of rector of St. John's for 105 years. (Literary Club Papers, vol. v., p. 123.)"
Note: Alumni Cantabrigienses, part II, volume III (1947), page 495, states Mr. Huntington's school to have been "Hull."
- [S75] Papers for the Manchester Literary Club, volume V, (Manchester: Abel Heywood and Son, 1879), pages 123–4.
"Of his successor, the Rev. William Huntington, my notice must be necessarily brief. During the last five years of Mr. Clowes's life he acted as curate-in-charge. He was born in Hull in 1796 [sic], and educated at Beverley Grammar School, afterwards proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had the good fortune of securing Dr. Whewell as his tutor, and the Rev. Charles Simeon (the then great spirit of the Evangelicals in the Church) as his spiritual guide. In 1821 he left the University to act as travelling tutor to the late Lord Dundas. In 1822 he was ordained at Salisbury, and in 1826, on the death of Mr. Finlow, became curate of St. John's. The vacant rectorship caused by the death of Mr. Clowes in 1831 was filled up by the appointment of Mr. Huntington, on the nomination of Mrs. Byrom, the lady patroness of the church. Mr. Huntington continued rector of St. John's until his death, on the 13th May, 1874, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
"Beyond the boundary of his parish Mr. Huntington was but little known. The only really great movement in which he took an active part was that of the Ten Hours Bill, which was successfully carried in 1847. In July, 1849, a large meeting of factory operatives was held in the Free Trade Hall, owing "to a disposition on the part of some of the masters to evade the provisions of the Act." Over this meeting Mr. Huntington presided, and made, for him, a very spirited speech, the effect of the movement being that the provisions of the Bill were in future maintained in their integrity. Perhaps the most notable passage in Mr. Huntington's life—the only one probably which will be handed down to posterity—was an encounter he had with Mr. Cobden in 1841, at which period the great free-trader attended St. John's, being a parishioner residing at the house afterwards Owens College, now the County Court. A movement was originated to build ten new churches in Manchester and Salford under the name of the "Ten Churches Association." Mr. Huntington, being on the Committee, applied to Mr. Cobden for assistance, and the following reply was the result: ..."
- [S4] National Probate Calendar, Year 1874, volume H, page 480.
"HUNTINGTON, The Reverend William. 27 May. The Will of the Reverend William Huntington late of Cornbrook Park Hulme in the City of Manchester Clerk Rector of St. John's Church Manchester who died 13 May 1874 at Cornbrook Park was proved at the Principal Registry by John Beevor Huntington of 2 Norfolk-street Manchester Stock Broker and Edward Chesshyre Huntington of 15 King-street Cheapside in the City of London Gentleman the Sons the Executors. Effects under £1,500."
- [S86] Will of William Huntington the Rector of Saint John's Church in the City of Manchester Clerk in Holy Orders (27 December 1873).
- [S60] Parish registers for St. John's Church, Byrom Street, Deansgate, Manchester, 1769–1928, (Manchester Central Library, Refs. M 403/6/2/1-11, M 403/6/3/1-59, M 403/6/4/1-6), Burials, 1864–1900, page 260, no. 2075, 18 May 1874.
"BURIALS in the Parish of Saint John : Manchester : in the County of Lancaster : in the Year 1874." No. 2075. Name: Revd. William Huntington M.A. Rector of this Church. Abode: 2, Cornbrook Bank, Pooley's Park, Hulme. When buried: 18th [May]. Age: 77 years. By whom the Ceremony was performed: W. Whitelegge, Hony. Canon Manchester.
- [S56] Parish registers for St. Thomas's Church, Liverpool, 1750–1905, (Liverpool Record Office, Refs. THO 1/1-4, 2/1-2, 3/1-8, 4/1-1A, 8/1-1A), Ref. 283/THO/3/2, Marriages, June 1779–February 1797, page 187, no. 747, 16 June 1794.
"No. 747. William Huntington of the Parish of Hull in the County of York Merchant and Mary Capstick of the Parish of Liverpool Spinster were married in this Church, by Licence this sixteenth Day of June in the Year one Thousand seven Hundred and Ninety Four, By me R. H. Roughsedge, Minister. This Marriage was solemnized between us {Wm. Huntington} {Mary Capstick} In the Presence of {John Hodgson} {Thos: Wainwright}."
- [S76] Parish registers for St. Mary's Church, Hull, 1564–1949, (East Yorkshire Archive Services, Refs. PE 185/1-10, 12-30), Ref. PE 185/18, Marriages, October 1827–July 1837, page 17, no. 49, 24 May 1828.
"MARRIAGES solemnized in the Parish of St. Mary in the County of the town of Kingston-on-Hull in the Year 1828." "[No. 49.] The Revd. William Huntington of the Parish of Christ's Church in Manchester, Bachelor, and Eleanor Ann Lambert of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by Licence with Consent of those whose Consent is required this Twenty-fourth Day of May in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight By me John Scott, Minister. This Marriage was solemnized between us {Wm. Huntington} {Eleanor Ann Lambert} In the Presence of {Arthur Lambert} {George Huntington} {Geo. Beevor Lambert}"
- [S77] Hull Packet, Issue 2271, page 3, 27 May 1828.
"On Saturday, at St. Mary's Church, by the Rev. John Scott, M. A. the Rev. William Huntington, M. A. of St. John's, Manchester, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Dundas, to Eleanor Ann, eldest daughter of J. B. Lambert, Esq. of this place."
See also Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 7 June 1828, page 3.
- [S55] The Morning Post, Issue 26667, page 8, 7 June 1859.
"HUNTINGTON—PROTHEROE.—On the 2d inst., at Narberth, Pembrokeshire, by the Rev. W. Lloyd, Rector of Narberth, the Rev. William Huntington, M.A., Rector of St. John's, Manchester, to Maria, eldest daughter of Griffith Protheroe, Esq., of Narberth, Surgeon."
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