Why did Ernest Rutherford move from McGill University to the University of Manchester?

Ernest Rutherford moved from McGill University to the University of Manchester in 1907 because he sought to be closer to the center of the scientific world. While North America possessed a strong scientific community, Rutherford recognized that Europe was the global hub for physics.

He accepted the chair offered by the University of Manchester because its physics laboratory was highly regarded, excelled in England only by the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.1