Richard Slate

Richard Slate (1787–1867) was an English congregationalist minister, known as a biographical writer.

Life

The son of Thomas Slate, manufacturer of straw hats at 36 Noble Street, London, he was born in London on 10 July 1787. In his 17th year he joined the congregation at Founders' Hall, Lothbury, and became a Sunday school teacher for the London Itinerant Society.[1]

In 1805 Slate entered Hoxton Academy, which he left in 1809 to become minister of the Independent church at Stand, near Manchester, where he was ordained on 19 April 1810. There he remained until September 1826, when he accepted the pastorate of Grimshaw Street Chapel, Preston, Lancashire, a charge which he retained for 35 years.[1]

Slate died at Preston on 10 December 1867, and was buried at Stand.[1]

Works

Slate published:[1]

He contributed to Robert Halley's Lancashire Nonconformity and other local history works, and wrote the notices of Richard Frankland's students in Joseph Horsfall Turner's edition of Oliver Heywood's Diaries, vol. iv.[1]

Family

Slate married Ann Watkins in 1810; she died in 1851.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Slate, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Slate, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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