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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![who would be suitaljlc as a wile. Il is not in Uiis way that marriages are usually contracted in novels ; and perhaps, even when a minister of religion is the originator of such an alliance, it can hardly be classed among those which are traditionally supf)oscd to be * made in heaven.' ]3ut the common experience of mankind proves that unions which are contracted in this prosaic fashion are not always the most unfortunate, and that not a little of real happiness may spring from them. Mr. Eccles did know of a family whom he could recommend to the young bookseller as being likely to furnish him with a worthy and congenial partner in life. This was the family of Mr. Wilham Deakin, a substantial yeoman, farming a considerable piece of land, his own property, in Attercliffe and Tinsley. Mr. Deakin's wife had died some time before, and he now lived at Attercliffe in a quaint country house, built by his father some thirty years previously, where he enjoyed the companionship of several unmarried daughters. His two sons Avere both married, and his third daughter was the wife of the Eev. Maurice Phillips, minister of the Independent Chapel at Atter- cliffe, through whom it is probable Mi'. Eccles had become acquainted with the family. Accordingly on a certain Good Friday, when shops were shut and no business was to be done, the worthy bookseller and his minister set off in a gig, ostensibly to drive from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
