The vicar of Tow Law from 1862 to 1888 was the Revd Michael Henry Simpson. Simpson's youngest daughter,
Alice Pickering (1860–1939), was a tennis player who played twice in the Wimbledon Championship Final. Another of Michael Henry Simpson's daughters,
Florence Eva Simpson (1865–1923), known as Elva Lorence, became a published writer and composer, as well as a painter. A third sister,
Katherine Ashton Simpson (1858–1951), known as Kate A. Pearce Simpson, was a writer of books and musicals and poetry. She was also an artist, whose work was hung in the
Royal Scottish Academy, at the Berwick Exhibition in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Her painting of her sister, Florence Eva Simpson, is part of the collection of
Touchstones Rochdale gallery, run by Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service. == References ==