Preston Industrial Institution for the Employment and Education of the Blind Preston Industrial Institution for the Employment and Education of the Blind A History of Preston in Amounderness BY H. W. CLEMESHA, M.A. (Henry Wordsworth Clemesha) The most considerable benefaction that the town has yet received was obtained under the Will of Edmund Robert Harris , a local solicitor, and a son of the Revd. Robert Harris, headmaster of the Grammar School from 1788 to 1835 and incumbent of St. George's from 1797 to 1862. Edmund Robert Harris, a local solicitor from Preston Owing to the courtesy of Messrs. W. Banks & Co., of Preston, who were the solicitors to the trustees, I am able to give the following figures, which though not furnishing a complete list of his benefactions, show how largely Preston has benefited under Mr. Harris's Will: Preston Industrial Institution for the employment and education of the blind £500 Foundation of scholarships at the Preston Grammar School £3,00...
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