Winwick Rectory Act, 1884
WHEREAS the perpetual advowson of the rectory and ecclesiastical parish and parish church of Winwick, in the county palatine of Lancaster, formerly within the diocese of Chester, but now within the diocese of Liverpool (herein-after in this Act called the rectory), was, at the time of the death of the Right Honourable Edward Geoffrey, late Earl of Derby, deceased, vested in him in fee simple.

And whereas the Reverend Frank George Hopwood, clerk, is the rector of the rectory and parish church...