Family notes for Samuel 'Sam' GREG Jnr and Mary Priscilla NEEDHAM As non-conformist Unitarians, they were unable to marry in a Unitarian
church, so used the good offices of a friend to conduct the service in an
Anglican church far from home in Nottinghamshire. Mary Priscilla was
required to sleep nearby for two weeks prior to establish residency! [142]
Notes for Samuel 'Sam' GREG Jnr Son of Samuel Greg Snr who built
Quarry Bank Mill at
Styal , Cheshire. Samuel Jnr was never cut out for
industry and put his mind to social improvement. This greatly benefited
his employees at Lowerhouse
mill, Bollington, but led almost to the
financial failure of the business. When his employees went on strike in
1847 he retired to his house never to set foot in the mill again. His
brothers John and Robert Hyde came to the rescue of the business,
narrowly saving it from bankruptcy, and his brother William Rathbone
Greg was appointed manager of Lowerhouse. Meanwhile, suffering seriously
from depression, Samuel put his mind to his Unitarian religion, science,
and the Macclesfield branch of the
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
In 1833, Sam was amongst those who founded the Manchester Statistical
Society. [142]
Notes for Mary Priscilla NEEDHAM For the last 20 or so years of her life, after the death of Samuel, Mary
Greg was attended and cared for by her spinster daughter Amy. Also, in
the first year of Mary's widowhood, she and Amy put together Samuel's
papers and published A Layman's Legacy in Prose and Verse,
Macmillan, 1877.
Sources | 92. | Historical Society, Bollington Civic Society |
| 136. | Newspaper, Macclesfield Courier, 27th April 1895 |
| 142. | Book, Robert C.G. Gamble, 2020, Mrs. Gaskell's Personal Pantheon, Edward Everett Root Publishers, Brighton, https://www.eerpublishing.com |
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