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Biographical Index.
Whittle, Richard (1820-1886).—Went to Crewe in 1850 and worked as a
striker in the railway works of the L. and N.-W. Company. Joined the Crewe
Society in 1851, and was appointed secretary in 1852. Member of the Crewe
Local Board, 1872; elected to the town council, 1877; Mayor of Crewe,
1879-1880; elected alderman in 1884 and again Mayor, 1884-1885; a J.P.
for Crewe. Elected to the C.W.S. Committee in 1877, he remained on
the directorate until 1886. A churchwarden in 1875, later he joined the
Congregationalists. In politics he was a strong Liberal.

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Monument over the Grave of J. T. W. Mitchell
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