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LANT CARPENTER (1780-1840)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 385 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARPENTER (1780-1840)  , 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 See also: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 See also:master at a Unitarian school near See also:Birmingham, he was in 1802 appointed librarian at the See also:Liverpool See also:Athenaeum . In 18o5 he became pastor of a See also:church in See also: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 See also: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 See also:infant. See also:dedication . His See also:health, undermined by his See also:constant labours, See also: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 See also:Leghorn to See also:Marseilles .

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