Isaac Spooner (c.1735–1816) was an English ironmaster and banker who founded Birmingham Bank.
Life
Spooner was born to 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, which became the largest private bank in Birmingham with a clientele mostly consisting of farmers and manufacturers. In 1801, Birmingham Bank opened a London branch called Spooner, Attwood & Holman. The bank Attwood, Spooner & Co. failed in 1865.
Spooner's views were evangelical and abolitionist. He owned an estate of over 2000 acres at Elmdon, West Midlands, where he completed Elmdon Hall, a development begun by his father Abraham in 1795, and which stood until its demolition in 1956. Elmdon Park remains in its place.
Family
Spooner married Barbara Gough, daughter of Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe and granddaughter of the MP Reynolds Calthorpe. They had children including:
- Abraham, who married the daughter of Luke Lillingston (great-nephew and heir of General Luke Lillingston) of Ferriby Grange, and took the name Abraham Spooner Lillingston.
- Isaac, who married Miss Tyler of Redland in 1807.
- Barbara Ann, who married William Wilberforce.
- 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, who attended Rugby School.
- William, who became Archdeacon of Coventry.
- Richard, who was a member of parliament. He married Charlotte, daughter of Nathan Wetherell.
- 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.
Notes
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- The New Monthly Magazine. s.n. 1816. p. 569.
- '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 .
- ^ John Pollock (20 December 2013). Wilberforce. David C. Cook. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7814-1109-7.
- The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1866. p. 28.
- ^ David Newsome (1966). The Parting of Friends: The Wilberforces and Henry Manning. Gracewing Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8028-3714-1.
- 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.
- ^ 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.)
- The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year. J. Dodsley. 1807. p. 60.
- "Spooner, Isaac (SPNR791I)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- John Aikin (1807). The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information. Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. p. 306.
- 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.)
- The Monthly Magazine. R. Phillips. 1809. p. 311.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Neale, Edward Vansittart" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Rugby School Register. From 1675 to 1867 inclusive. With alphabetical index. Edited by F. Temple, Bishop of Exeter. 1867. p. 39.
- Rugby School (1867). Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive. Billington. p. 42.
- Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) (1857). Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Edward Cave. p. 465.
- "Spooner, John (SPNR805J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- 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.
- Wakefield, C. M. (1885). "Life of Thomas Attwood". Internet Archive. London: Harrison. p. 15. Retrieved 17 June 2015.