sentences:  He later became manager of the Guardian Insurance Company and was also Secretary of the Cotton Famine Relief Fund during the Lancashire Cotton famine in the early 1860s.He played an important role for the revival of Conservatism in Manchester and served as President of the Conservative Association of South and East Lancashire.In the 1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested Stretford, but was successfully returned for the same constituency in the 1886 general election, and held the seat until his death.