“I often used to wonder by what magic he continued so successfully the life of a countryman and the life of a social worker in this large dirty town. I’m sure he loved both. He couldn’t have been such a power in Manchester if he had not really loved it and yet he seemed to me to be so perfectly suited to the role of a Country Squire”.  -  Harry Gaddum, silk merchant, philanthropist and countryman 1865-1940