Richard Wroe

[1] He was educated at the Bury Grammar School and at Jesus College, Cambridge, which he entered in June 1658.

Through the influence of Lord Delamere (afterwards Earl of Warrington) he obtained in 1672 a royal mandate for the next presentation to a fellowship of the college at Manchester.

On 1 May 1684 he was installed warden of Manchester College, and in the same year became vicar of Garstang, Lancashire, which benefice he resigned in 1696 on being presented to the rectory of West Kirby, Cheshire.

As rural dean of Manchester Wroe rendered assistance to Bishop Gastrell in the compilation of his Notitia Cestriensis.

He was the author of five separately published sermons; the animation and felicity of his pulpit discourses earned him the title of "silver-tongued Wroe".

Copies of an etched portrait by Walter Geikie were published at Manchester about 1824, and a woodcut appears in the Palatine Notebook, 1882.