"[1] It is in this context of sociability and regular work among his congregation that the events surrounding the delayed discovery of his death, mentioned in several newspapers, remain a puzzle.

Having suffered a seizure, he apparently lay openly on a flower bed in his vicarage garden on a dark February night, while his congregation spent eleven hours searching for him on the adjacent moorland.

[2] While at St Bartholomew's he helped to arrange a three-day bazaar to raise funds for a Sunday school and a parochial room, and he manned the hardware stall.

On Saturday 3 January 1891 he helped to organise a gathering for over 400 elderly people, in which they were offered a tea with speeches and entertainment, and were given money and fruit, including oranges, which had been contributed by local gentry and tradespeople.

"[20] On Sunday 27 January 1895 he attended a public meeting of the Church of England Temperance Society in the Parochial Hall, Huddersfield, where he acted as clerical secretary.

[21] On Saturday 12 October 1895 he attended a conference of the Huddersfield and District Bible Classes and Mutual Improvement Societies Association, providing support for the chairman.

One the resolutions of that conference called upon the watch committee and the police to do everything possible to prevent the use of public houses for gambling, which speakers described as "rampant evil.

[23] In 1899, at a meeting of the Huddersfield and District Shorthand Writers' Association, he read a paper entitled Amusements which gave "great satisfaction, nearly all the members present having something to say upon the subject.

"[24] In 1900, at a meeting of St Mark's Mutual Improvement Society in The Parish Room, Huddersfield, Humble read a paper entitled Hymns and Their Writers.

"In a wild district of Cumberland", villagers "searched the countryside" for him for eleven hours and eventually found him at, or just after, midnight lying dead on a flower bed in the vicarage garden.