Beddome Sermons Subscribers Part 2

Others

The MPs are the brothers Charles Barclay (1780-1855) and David Barclay (1784-1861) whose wife is also listed. Both MPs, like the publisher, had a Quaker background. Charles of Bury Hill, Surrey, was a brewer and landowner and Tory MP for West Surrey (1835–1837, previously of Southwark 1815–1818 and Dundalk 1826–1830). David was Whig MP for Penryn, Cornwall, 1828-1830 when he resigned. After two unsuccessful attempts to take the Sunderland seat, he eventually won it in 1835, only to lose it in 1837. He was re-elected as MP for Sunderland in 1841 and held it until he resigned in 1847.

The Beddome family is well represented in the list, unsurprisingly. Ten sons, daughters-in-law and grandsons bear the Beddome name but others may be missed, such as Olinthus Gregory LLD FRAS (1774-1841) the mathematician, whose second marriage was to Beddome's granddaughter Anne Beddome (b 1789). Another grand daughter, Elizabeth Charlesworth, has already been mentioned.

The medical doctors are Samuel Ashwell (1798-1857) a leading London gynaecologist and Bourton based Nathaniel Stenson (1776-1862). The other Bourton resident is Mrs Elizabeth Ashwin (1775-1855) probably the daughter of deacon James Ashwin (1710-1801). Also listed are John Reynolds (1776-1854) of Lower Slaughter and his two daughters or granddaughters at Sondes Place, Dorking, where Charles Barclay's wife and a Mrs Crawford, another subscriber, are all also said to be living and Richard Cooper (1757-1848) of Little Rissington, converted from Anglicanism in Beddome's time and a member at Burton.

Other identifiable individuals include William Bury (1785-1839) of Fox-hill Bank, Blackburn; clothier and art collector E A Butler (c 1802-1886); William Romaine Callender (d 1872) and his wife, Hannah (nee Pope) of Manchester (who also paid for two further copies for a friend); the Manchester Quakers, Isaac Crewdson (1760-1844) Wilson Crewdson (1790-1871) and David Dockray (1778-1853); the businessman George Hillhouse (c 1778-1844) of Combe-house, Bristol; the clothiers, William and Nathaniel Samuel Marling, who owned mills in the Stroud area; the widows of Francis Paynter (1762-1835) of Denmark Hill, the successful Cornish builder and of the Independent minister Robert Winter (1762-1833) from London. Others with a Stroud connection include Henry Whyatt (1783-1847); the local historian Paul Hawkins Fisher (1779-1873) and Lindsey Winterbotham (1799-1871) a banker and landowner, then of Tewkesbury but later of Stroud.

The only non-personal subscriber is The Nailsworth Reading Society. This is a Quaker group started in 1818 and still very active at this time. Individuals from Nailsworth, near Stroud, include the clothier Baptist deacons, Samuel Enoch Francis (d 1858), the son of the pastor there, Benjamin Francis (1734-1799) and Edward Barnard (1796-1867). Mary Bliss of Pensile House, is the widow of Baptist deacon, Edward Bliss. Her sister Ann Bliss is also listed and Thomas Overbury. Another two London men called Bliss also appear.

The name Mrs W Brock, Norwich, is interesting as William Brock (1807-1875) had settled in the Baptist church there, St Mary's, in 1833. In 1834 he married Mary Bliss of Nailsworth, whose family was just mentioned.

The Baptist minister George Cole has been mentioned. He was in Leamington as was Josephus Beddome (1808-1854), Beddome's youngest son. So also were the subscribers, John Walter Sherer (1776-1846), Mrs Way and the Misses Phelp and Pimlott.

Thirty subscribers are from Manchester and thirteen from London. Only a few subscribers are from outside England. William Petrie, father of the inventor of the arc lamp, was then in the Cape of Good Hope; there is also Mrs Poole and Miss E Wallis in Waterford, Ireland and the Quaker bookseller and stationer, Richard Moore Tims of Grafton Street, Dublin; in Haverfors West, Miss Maelor and, in Edinburgh, Mrs John Anderson and the Misses Saville.

Beddome's support by this time was coming from family and old friends, one or two from among the great adn the good and others whose connection is difficult at this remote time to work out.