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In addition to his anti-slavery work, he also offered to pay half the cost of smallpox inoculation for people in
Rothley in 1784–5. He set up a local Friendly Society to purchase corn for sale to the poor at a lower price to improve the lives and diet of his estate workers. Trusts he set up to
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