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DUNCKLEY, HENRY (1823-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 672 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUNCKLEY, See also:HENRY (1823-1896) , See also:English journalist, was See also:born at See also:Warwick on the 24th of See also:December 1823. Educated at the Baptist See also:college at See also:Accrington, See also:Lancashire, and at See also:Glasgow University, he became in 1848 See also:minister of the Baptist See also:church at See also:Salford, Lancashire. Here he closely investigated the educational needs of the working-classes, embodying the results of his inquiries in an See also:essay, The See also:Glory and the Shame of See also:Britain (1851), which gained a See also:prize offered by the Religious See also:Tract Society. In 1852 he won the See also:Anti-See also:Corn-See also:law See also:League's prize with an essay on the results of the See also:free-See also:trade policy, published in 1854 under the See also:title The See also:Charter of the Nations. In 1855 he abandoned the See also:ministry to edit the See also:Manchester Examiner and Times, a prominent Liberal newspaper, in See also:charge of which he remained till 1889. For twenty years he wrote, over the See also:signature " Verax," weekly letters to the Manchester papers; those on The See also:Crown and the See also:Cabinet (1877) and The Crown and the Constitution (1878) evoked so much See also:enthusiasm that a public subscription was set on See also:foot to See also:present the writer with a handsome testimonial for his public services. In 1878 Dunckley, who had often declined to stand for See also:parliament, was elected a member of the Reform See also:Club in recognition of his services to the Liberal party, and in 1883 he was made an LL.D. by Glasgow University. He died at Manchester on the 29th of See also:June 1896.

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