Isaac Spooner

Isaac Spooner (c.1735–1816)^[1][2] was an English ironmaster, nail manufacturer and banker.

Life

Elmdon Hall, 1863 engraving

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.^[1][3][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]

Elmdon Park today

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

1. "Spooner, Richard (1783–1864), of Glindon House, Warws., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 17 June 2015.
2. The New Monthly Magazine. s.n. 1816. p. 569.
3. '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].
4. John Pollock (20 December 2013). Wilberforce. David C. Cook. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7814-1109-7.
5. "Attwood, Matthias (1779–1851), of Gracechurch Street, London and Dulwich Hill House, Surr., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 17 June 2015.
6. David Newsome (1966). The Parting of Friends: The Wilberforces and Henry Manning. Gracewing Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8028-3714-1.
7. Edmund Richardson (7 February 2013). Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-139-62010-9.
8. "Elmdon history, http://www.solihull.gov.uk/". Retrieved 17 June 2015. External link in |title= (help)
9. The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1866. p. 28.
10. Wolffe, John. "Wilberforce, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29386. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year. J. Dodsley. 1807. p. 60.
12. "Spooner, Isaac (SPNR791I)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
13. John Aikin (1807). The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information. Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. p. 306.
14. Lee, Matthew. "Neale, Edward Vansittart". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19820. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
15. The Monthly Magazine. R. Phillips. 1809. p. 311.
16.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Neale, Edward Vansittart". Dictionary of National Biography. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
17. Rugby School Register. From 1675 to 1867 inclusive. With alphabetical index. Edited by F. Temple, Bishop of Exeter. 1867. p. 39.
18. Rugby School (1867). Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive. Billington. p. 42.
19. Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) (1857). Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Edward Cave. p. 465.
20. "Spooner, John (SPNR805J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
21. John Burke (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Colburn. p. 185.
22. Wakefield, C. M. (1885). "Life of Thomas Attwood". Internet Archive. London: Harrison. p. 15. Retrieved 17 June 2015.

External links

• landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk, Alston of Elmdon Hall