Samuel Angier (1639–1713) was an English nonconformist minister, one of the first after 1660 to receive presbyterian ordination.

Life

The nephew of John Angier, he was born at Dedham 28 August 1639, and was a pupil of

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. He went to

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, in 1659, but was compelled to leave by the

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. After some time staying with John Owen he settled as assistant to his uncle at Denton. His ordination, which took place in 1672 at the house of Robert Eaton in

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, Manchester, was the first presbyterian ordination amongst the nonconformists in the north of England, and perhaps the first in any part of the kingdom. At his uncle's death many people supported Samuel Angier as his successor. The warden and fellows of Manchester, however, were not disposed to appoint another nonconformist, and the Rev. John Ogden was nominated; but great difficulty was experienced in inducing Samuel Angier to give up possession of the house. He retired to the adjacent village of

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. He had to suffer for his nonconformity, and in 1680 was excommunicated; but under the Act of Toleration in 1689 he became minister of a dissenting meeting at Dukinfield, where a chapel was built for him in 1708. In his later years he was almost blind, and died 8 November 1713. Angier kept a register of 'christenings and some marriages and funerals' from 1677 to 1713. One entry relates to the death, 20 February 1698, of another Samuel Angier, who is believed to have been a minister of the 'ancient chapel' of Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

References

* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Angier, Samuel 1639 births 1713 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford People from Dedham, Essex 17th-century English Presbyterian ministers 18th-century English Presbyterian ministers