Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr
Ch X. 1816-1820
Samuel Parr to William Roscoe, 5 September 1815
“Dear and excellent Mr.
Roscoe,—I am looking eagerly forward to the visit which I am to
pay you at Liverpool; and most sincerely do I rejoice that my long-tried
friend, and much-respected patron, Mr.
Coke, is to be of the party. Now, dear sir, I will open to you a
little of my views, with unfeigned and unusual gladness. I shall first sojourn
with you at Allerton, and shall take care my stay be not tiresome to you. I
have promised to spend two or three days with Mr.
Martin. I shall give one day to Dr.
Crompton, and another to Mr.
Shepherd.1 I very seldom preach, except
in my own parish church; but, having lately made two sermons, I shall, perhaps,
deliver them in your neighbourhood, if the Principal of Brazen-nose should be
resident at Liverpool,
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and think it worth his while to offer me his pulpit. I
heard the other day from Mr. Coke. He will write to me
again from Lord Anson’s, and fix the
day on which we are to set out. I am, &c.—S. P.”
Thomas Anson, first viscount Anson (1767-1818)
Of Shugborough Hall, the son of George (Adams) Anson (1731-1789); he was Whig MP for
Lichfield (1789-1806) and was raised to the peerage in 1806.
Peter Crompton (1767-1833)
Of Eton House near Liverpool; the son of a Derby banker, he was a physician and
unsuccessful radical candidate for Parliament.
Thomas Martin (1769-1850)
Educated at Hackney College, he was a Liverpool merchant and pamphleteer who was a member
of William Roscoe's circle. He married a sister of Roscoe's botanical friend, Sir James
Edward Smith.
Samuel Parr (1747-1825)
English schoolmaster, scholar, and book collector whose strident politics and assertive
personality involved him in a long series of quarrels.
William Roscoe (1753-1831)
Historian, poet, and man of letters; author of
Life of Lorenzo di
Medici (1795) and
Life and Pontificate of Leo X (1805). He
was Whig MP for Liverpool (1806-1807) and edited the
Works of Pope,
10 vols (1824).
William Shepherd (1768-1847)
Educated at the dissenting academies at Daventry and the New College, Hackney, he was a
Unitarian minister and schoolmaster at Gateacre near Liverpool, a political radical, and
member of William Roscoe's literary circle.
