Robert Brook Aspland (19 January 1805 – 21 June 1869) was an English Unitarian minister and editor. To be distinguished from his father

Robert Aspland Robert Aspland (13 January 1782 – 30 December 1845) was an English Unitarian minister, editor and activist. To be distinguished from his son Robert Brook Aspland (1805-1869). Life Aspland was the son of Robert Aspland and his second wife, Ha ...

(1782-1845).

Life

The son of

, he was born at

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, 19 January 1805. He was educated first with Mr. Potticary of

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(where

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was his schoolfellow), next with Mr. Evans of

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, then at

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, where he graduated as M.A. in 1822. Lastly he went to

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, finishing his studies in 1826. Crook's Lane,

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, was his first chapel, whither he went in August 1826. He left in 1833 to be co-pastor with

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at Lewin's Mead chapel,

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, where, on 21 October of that year, he married Jane Hibbert, and established a boarding-school. In 1836 he moved to

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; in 1858 to Hackney. He took up the editorship of the ''

Christian Reformer The ''Christian Reformer, or New Evangelical Miscellany'' was a British Unitarian magazine established in 1815 and edited by Robert Aspland Robert Aspland (13 January 1782 – 30 December 1845) was an English Unitarian minister, editor and act ...

'' on his father's death in 1845, keeping it till the publication ceased in 1863. In 1846 he was made one of the secretaries of Manchester College (holding the post till 1857). Brook Aspland became secretary to the

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in 1859; he was helped by a colleague in 1867, and having fallen into bad health, he died suddenly 21 June 1869, aged 65.

Works

In 1850 he collected from the ''Christian Reformer'' memoirs of his father's life. Some other publications were: ''A Brief Memoir of the Rev. Paul Cardale'', extracted from the ''Christian Reformer'', 1852; sermons, and '' Paul Best, the Unitarian Confessor'', 1853; and ''Mr.

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and Dr. Henry Sampson'', reprinted in pamphlet form, 1862. ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Aspland, Robert Brook 1805 births 1869 deaths English Unitarian ministers People from Newport, Isle of Wight Alumni of the University of Glasgow English magazine editors 19th-century Unitarian clergy 19th-century English people 19th-century British journalists British male journalists 19th-century British male writers Alumni of Harris Manchester College, Oxford