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All that is known is that its president was a William Fenton, who also became treasurer and is believed to be the driving force behind the Society's early growth. However, its objectives were clearly set out in its first report in September 1843. "The great object of this Society is to afford the poorer classes of the community the means of providing for themselves and their children a decent interment at the trilling expense of a halfpenny, a penny or three pence, according to the age of the member" For the remainder of the nineteenth century

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