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Extracts
from Morris Garratt’s Pictures and Postcards from the
Past: Cheadle Hulme (Sigma Press, ISBN 1 85058 674 8), reproduced
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34. Dr. Knott
Dr. Thomas Brideoak Knott was born at Bolton in 1826 and in
December 1864 was appointed Certifying Surgeon for Middleton
and District by the Inspector of Factories for the Oldham Board
of Guardians. The Public Health Act 1872 made
the appointment of a Medical Officer of Health compulsory, and
in the following year. Dr. Knott became the first Medical Officer
of Health
for Middleton, a post he held until his resignation in September
1880. In 1886, he was a founding member of the Cheadle and Gatley
Local
Board of Health. He died in 1911 and was buried at All Saints
Parish Church, to whom he had given the eagle lectern in 1899.
The photograph is obviously one of a pair, for in a note to
Dr.Knott on the reverse of the original, the unknown photographer
has written: "On both of these the pony only seems to have
3 legs. I have not sent the other as there is no difference". |
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The house, seen to better advantage in this photograph,
still stands; it was called 'Ellerslie' in Dr Knott's time and
was later re-named 'Woodcote'
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