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See also:RICHARD See also:COPLEY See also:CHRISTIE (183o–Igor)
, See also:English See also:scholar and bibliophile, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:July 183o at Lenton in See also:Nottinghamshire, the son of a millowner
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He was educated at See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford, and was called to the See also:bar at Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1857, and in 1872 became See also:chancellor of the See also:diocese of See also:Manchester
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This he resigned in 1893
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He held numerous appointments, notably the professorships of See also:history (from 1854 to 1856) and of See also:political See also:economy (from 1855 to 1866) at See also:Owens College, Manchester
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He always took an active See also:interest in this college, of which he was one of the See also:governors; in 1893 he gave the See also:Christie library See also:building designed by See also:Alfred See also:Waterhouse, and in 1897 he devoted £50,000 of the funds at his disposal as a trustee of See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Whitworth's See also:estate for the building of Whitworth See also: |
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