This is a list of people from the metropolitan borough of Bury in North West England. It includes people from the town of Bury and also people from the towns of Radcliffe, Prestwich, Whitefield, Tottington, Ramsbottom, and other places which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bury. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname.
He was educated at Bury grammar school and apprenticed for a time to J. H. Leicester at the Manchester chamber of commerce testing house.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
... the boy's education was superintended by his clergyman uncle, the Revd John Lister (1703–1759), at the free school at Bury, Lancashire.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
He was baptized there on 4 April 1720, and educated at Bury Free School.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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(help)He was educated at the Bury grammar school, and, though at first intended for the church, was articled to a solicitor(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
Bury grammar school and the Liverpool Institute provided the principal elements of his early education.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
Leaving Bury grammar school at eighteen, he was conscripted for national service as a coder in the Royal Navy.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
He was educated at Bury grammar school and Jesus College, Cambridge. Entered as a pensioner on 19 June 1658 and a scholar from 19 January 1660, he graduated BA in 1662 and was elected fellow on 23 July 1662.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)