The Very Rev Edward Craig Maclure (1833-1906), DD

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, MA was Dean of Manchester

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 in the last decade of the 19th century and the first one of the 20th.

Born on 10 June 1833 he was educated at Manchester Grammar School

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 and Brasenose College, Oxford

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 and ordained in 1858. After curacies

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 at St John Ladywood

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 and St Pancras Parish Church he was Vicar

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 of Habergham Eaves

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 then Rural Dean

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 of Rochdale

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. Whilst still Archdeacon-designate

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 of Manchester

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 he was elevated to that City’s

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 Deanery

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. He died in post on 8 May 1906.

His brother was Member of Parliament

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 for Stretford

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 from 1886 to 1901.