Memorials of the Rev. Robert Brickel, B.A., Rector of Hoole, 1848-1881.

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AND: Our Relationship and Our Work …. To the Inhabitants of Much Hoole & Little Hoole from the Rev. Robert Brickel …. [Preston: H. Oakey.1864] AND: This World and the Next. A New Year s Address to the Inhabitants of Much Hoole & Little Hoole by the Rev. Robert Brickel… [Preston: H.Oakey. 1872] AND: The Transit of Venus 1639-1874, or, A Chapter of Romance in Science, In Memoriam Horroccii … by Robert Brickel, B.A. … [Preston: H.Oakey. 1874] AND: Good Things & True From Our Loved Dead. A Third and Last Letter … by the Rev. Robert Brickel … [Preston: H.Oakey. 1879] Five items in one volume, reprinted and continuously paginated. Only edition of this work. 12mo., viii[1]-263[1]pp., with a mounted Autotype portrait of the author and a mounted photograph opposite of his Memorial tablet on free endpapers before title, with the armorial bookplate of John L. Myres to front pastedown endpaper and neatly signed and dated Feb. 1884 by him to head of front free endpaper. Title page and endpaper foxed, original brown cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine gilt lettered with head of spine worn, otherwise sound and very good. [Very uncommon with no copy traced on the Net, NSTC, COPAC or worldcat.] An interesting volume with Item 4 The Transit of Venus being a Memoir of Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 3 January 1641) the English Astronomer, who was the only person to predict and one of only two people to observe and record the transit of Venus of 1639. The other items record the Life of the Rev. Robert Brickel, Rector of Hoole, energetic campaigner and tireless worker for the community who by raising subscriptions eventually saw a tablet installed in Westminster Abbey commemorating the short life of Horrocks who died aged only twenty-two. Horrocks had, after matriculating from Cambridge, been the schoolmaster and curate at Much Hoole, where he observed the transit of Venus in between his ecclesiastic duties it being a Sunday. He was born at Toxteth, a Hamlet of 20 or 30 houses, which was a place of good repute judging from the character if its inhabitants. The other items are a memorial to the character and work of the Rev. Robert Brickel. A Subscription List was opened and a sum was raised which enabled the committee to erect a Tablet in the Parish Church of Hoole , to institute a Brickel prize in connection with the Parochial Schools, and to publish in a single volume the pastoral letters and pamphlets which had from time to time been addressed to the parishoners by their rector, together with a reprint of a memoir of Jeremiah Horrocks … Brickel was Vicar of Hoole from 1848 to his death in 1881. There he established Allotments, a Savings Bank and Village Band, and by Tea Parties and Entertainments he endeavoured to provide safeguards and recreation for all. New Schools were erected and he threw himself into every activity that brought benefit to the community. Good reading with informative and interesting observations throughout on parish life from employment to street brawling and on the hard life of farmers due to heavier poor rates on account of the cotton famine. N° de ref. del artículo B1044

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