Sir William Pickles Hartley - Chronology From Peake, Arthur S. (1926) The Life of Sir William Hartley. 1st Ed. Hodder &

Chronology From Peake, Arthur S. (1926) The Life of Sir William Hartley. 1st Ed. Hodder &

• Born at Colne, 23 February 1846.
• Educated at the British School and the Grammar School, Colne.
• Left school at the age of fourteen. Started in business for himself in Colne at the age of sixteen.
• At the age of twenty married Miss Martha Horsfield of Colne on Whit-Monday, 21 May 1866.
• Death of his mother at the age of forty-six on 18 May 1870.
• Removed to Bootle, 1874.
• Vow to devote a specific proportion of income to religious and charitable purposes made 1 January 1877.
• Offer of £1,000 if the debt of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society was paid off, 1884.
• Presided at the meeting of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society at which the removal of the debt was announced, May 1885.
• Communicated to the Primitive Methodist Conference the suggestions which led to the formation of the Chapel Aid Association, 1885.
• 1886: Built works at Aintree
• Chapel Aid Association registered, 2 January 1890.
• Elected General Treasurer of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, 7 June 1890.
• Removed from Inglewood, Birkdale, to Aintree at the end of October 1890.
• Visited Oxford, where he celebrated his silver wedding, May 1891.
• Proposed new departure in ministerial education to the Conference of 1891.
• 1891-92, supported the majority of Everton FC members in an internal dispute which resulted in the club moving to Goodison Park creating Liverpool FC.
• Death of his father, 27 January 1892.
• Elected Vice-President of Conference, June 1892.
• Jubilee Fund inaugurated at this Conference. On his suggestion sum to be raised fixed at £50,000, towards which he promised £5,000.
• Addressed meetings all over the country on behalf of the Jubilee Fund, 1892-3.
• Appointed Justice of the Peace, 18 August 1893.
• Member of the Liverpool City Council, 1895-8.
• Elected on the Walton School Board, 14 January 1895.
• Aintree Institute and Cafe opened, 1896.
• 1896: Founded Hartley Lectureship
• First extension of Primitive Methodist College, Manchester, 1897.
• London business started, 1900.
• Cottage Hospital opened at Colne, 20 April 1900.
• Botanical Laboratory, University College, Liverpool, opened 10 May 1902.
• Removed from Aintree to "Sea View," Southport, 1904.
• Second extension of Hartley College opened, June 1906.
• Primitive Methodist Centenary Celebrations, 1907-10. He was appointed Treasurer of the Centenary Fund and contributed £15,000.
• 1908: Knighted
• 1908: Purchased Holborn Town Hall for £31,000; he enlarged it and erected a new Publishing House. The enlarged premises were bought from him at cost price (about £50,000) by the Primitive Methodist Church. To this he contributed £17,500.
• President of the Primitive Methodist Conference held at Southport, June 1909.
• Freedom of Colne conferred, 9 November 1909.
• Pension Fund inaugurated, 1909.
• Hartley Homes opened at Colne, 1911.
• Unveiled windows presented by him to Hartley College, 11 June 1914.
• Seventieth birthday, 23 February 1916. Gifts in commemoration to Hospitals, Pension Fund, Grocers' Charities.
• Golden wedding, 21 May 1916.
• Address of congratulation from the Primitive Methodist Conference, June 1916.
• Removed from Southport to Birkdale, 1919.
• Business converted into a Limited Liability Company, 1919.
• Declined to accept Mayoralty of Colne, 1919.
• Laid foundation-stone of Colne Hospital, 3 September 1921.
• Miss Hartley became Mayor of Southport, 9 November 1921.
• Death of Sir William Hartley, Wednesday, 25 October 1922.
• Funeral service at Church Street, Southport, and interment at Trawden, Saturday, 28 October 1922.
• Christiana Hartley, proposed to construct a Maternity Hospital in Southport. The plans where accepted and the Maternity Hospital opened in May 1932.