1873--Placed on Liverpool Bench 154 1882--Placed on Lancashire County Bench 154 1900--Placed on Cheshire County Bench 154 1890--Deputy-Chairman of Quarter Sessions, West Derby Hundred 154 1894--Chairman of Quarter Sessions 154 1894--Chairman of the County Bench 155 1894--Chairman of the Licensing Justices 155 Chairman of the Visiting Justices, Walton Jail 157 1902--Appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant for Lancashire 154 1909--HIGH SHERIFF FOR LANCASHIRE 159 Interesting Ceremony at Lancaster Castle 161 The King and Queen at Knowsley 162 CHAPTER XII.--BLUNDELLSANDS, BROMBOROUGH & CROSBY Blundellsands 164 Crosby Grammar School 166 Bromborough 168 CHAPTER XIII.--DIRECTORSHIPS 171 1889--Chairman Overhead Railway 172 1893--Opening by the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister 173 1898--Chairman of the Bank of Liverpool 176 1888--Director of the Cunard Company 177 Some incidents 179 Castle Wemyss 181 Making of the Cunard Company 181 Liverpool and Mediterranean Trade 182 White Star Line 184 Mr. T. H. Ismay 185 Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G. 186 1888--Director Employers' Liability Assurance Company. CHAPTER XIV.--THE CHURCHES 188 The Church, 1860-1870 188 Dr. McNeile 189 Dr. Ryle, first Bishop of Liverpool 190 Nonconformists 192 THE BUILDING OF A CATHEDRAL 194 Early History 194 Chairman of Executive Committee 198 Foundation-stone laid by the King 199 Consecration of the Lady Chapel 201 Convocation 203 Church Congress 204 New York Cathedral 204 CHAPTER XV.--PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK 206 Crusade against intemperance 207 Workmen's dwellings 208 Local workers 209