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| | Leeds, political, Halifax, Crossley, County, years, returned, party, editor, Macaulay, Directory, Board - Edward Baines |
 | | Edward Baines (1774-1848), English newspaper-proprietor and politician, was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire. |
 | | The third daughter of Sir Edward Baines Jnr, Jane Eleanor, married Edward, the eldest son of Joseph Crossley J.P., of Broomfield, Halifax, Yorkshire, of the Crossley carpets dynasty. |
 | | Edward, of Bermerside, Halifax, July 1841-21 January 1905 dsp,J.P., was Liberal M.P. for Sowerby 1885-92, Mayor of Halifax 1875 and 1876, philanthropist and F.R.A.S. He donated his 36" Crossley reflector telescope and observatory to the Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton, San Jose, California, where it is still used by chief astronomer Remington Stone for spectroscopy. |
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