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Isaac Spooner


Children
  
Richard Spooner

Isaac Spooner

Isaac Spooner (c.1735–1816) 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. His views were evangelical and abolitionist.

Legacy

Spooner owned an estate of over 2000 acres at Elmdon, and he completed Elmdon Hall, started by his father, in 1795. The bank Attwood, Spooner & Co. failed in 1865. The Hall was demolished in 1956.

Family

Spooner married Barbara Gough, sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe. 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.
  • The second son Isaac, who married Miss Tyler of Redland in 1807.
  • The third child and eldest daughter, Barbara Ann, who married William Wilberforce.
  • 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.
  • Henry, the third son.
  • William, the fourth son and sixth child, who became Archdeacon of Coventry.
  • The fifth son Richard, who was a Member of Parliament. He married Charlotte, daughter of Nathan Wetherell.
  • The sixth son John, who was a clergyman.

    • There were nine in all, with the unmarried Eliza; or ten. Richard is said to be the ninth child in an 1885 Life of Thomas Attwood.

    References

    Isaac Spooner Wikipedia
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