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LANT See also: English Unitarian See also: minister, was See also: born at See also: Kidderminster on the and of See also: September 1780, the
son of a See also: carpet manufacturer
.
After some months at a non-conformist See also: academy at Northampton, he proceeded to See also: Glasgow University, and then joined the See also: ministry
.
After a See also: short See also: time as assistant master at a Unitarian school near See also: Birmingham, he was in 1802 appointed librarian at the Liverpool See also: Athenaeum
.
In 18o5 he became pastor of a See also: church in Exeter, removing in 1817 to
See also: Bristol
.
At both Bristol and Exeter he was also engaged in school See also: work, among his Bristol pupils being Harriet and See also: James Martineau
.
See also: Carpenter did much to broaden the spirit of English See also: Unitarianism
.
The rite of See also: baptism seemed to him a superstition, and he substituted for it a See also: form of infant. dedication
.
His See also: health, undermined by his See also: constant labours, broke down in 1839, and he was ordered to travel
.
He was drowned on the See also: night of the 5th of See also: April 184o, having been washed overboard from the steamer in which he was travelling from Leghorn to See also: Marseilles
.
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