Isaac Spooner
Isaac Spooner (c.1735–1816)[1][2] was an English ironmaster, nail manufacturer and banker.
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Life
The son of Abraham Spooner and Anne Knight, he went into the family iron business based around a furnace at Aston, in the Birmingham area. In 1791 he founded a bank with Matthias Attwood the elder, known then as the Birmingham Bank, and in 1801 it opened a London branch, Spooner, Attwood & Holman.[3][1][4][5] His views were evangelical and abolitionist.[6]
Legacy
Spooner owned an estate of over 2000 acres at Elmdon, and he completed Elmdon Hall, started by his father, in 1795.[7][8] The bank Attwood, Spooner & Co. failed in 1865.[9] The Hall was demolished in 1956.[8]
Family
Spooner married Barbara Gough, sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe.[10] They had children including:
- The eldest son Abraham, who married the daughter of Luke Lillingston of Ferriby Grange. and took the name Abraham Spooner Lillingston.[11]
- The second son Isaac, who married Miss Tyler of Redland in 1807.[12][13]
- The third child and eldest daughter, Barbara Ann, who married William Wilberforce.[10]
- The second daughter Anne, who married Edward Vansittart, son of George Vansittart and vicar of Taplow, as his second wife, and was mother of Edward Vansittart Neale.[14][15][16]
- Henry, the third son.[17]
- William, the fourth son and sixth child, who became Archdeacon of Coventry.[6][18][19]
- The fifth son Richard, who was a Member of Parliament. He married Charlotte, daughter of Nathan Wetherell.[1]
- The sixth son John, who was a clergyman.[20]
There were nine in all, with the unmarried Eliza;[21] or ten.[4] Richard is said to be the ninth child in an 1885 Life of Thomas Attwood.[22]
Notes
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- ↑ 'Parishes: Elmdon', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 67–69 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp67-69 [accessed 17 June 2015].
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