Timothy Kenrick (1759–1804) was a Welsh
Unitarian minister, biblical commentator, and
dissenting academy
The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, those who did not conform to the Church of England. They formed a significant part of England's edu ...
tutor.
Life
The third son of John Kenrick of
Wynn Hall
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in the parish of
Ruabon
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,
Denbighshire
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, by Mary, daughter of Timothy Quarrell of
Llanfyllin
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,
Montgomeryshire
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, he was born at Wynn Hall on 26 January 1759, and baptised on 6 February.
Archibald Kenrick the manufacturer was a brother, so that Timothy Kenrick of Birmingham (1807–1885) was a nephew.
In 1774 Kenrick entered
Daventry Academy
Daventry Academy was a dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by English Dissenters. It moved to many locations, but was most associated with Daventry, where its most famous pupil was Joseph Priestley. It had a high reputation, an ...
under
Caleb Ashworth
Caleb Ashworth, D.D. (1722–1775) was an English dissenting tutor.
Life
Ashworth was born at Cloughfold, Rossendale, Lancashire, in 1722. His father, Richard Ashworth, who died in 1751, aged eighty-four, was a lay preacher among the Particular ...
, who was succeeded in 1775 by Thomas Robins. While still a student he was chosen assistant-tutor in classics; during one session he read lectures for Robins, who had lost his voice, and on Robins's resignation (1781) he continued under
Thomas Belsham
Thomas Belsham (26 April 175011 November 1829) was an English Unitarian minister
Life
Belsham was born in Bedford, England, and was the elder brother of William Belsham, the English political writer and historian. He was educated at the dissen ...
as classical and then as mathematical tutor.
In January 1784 Kenrick became colleague to James Manning at George's Meeting,
Exeter
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In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
, and was ordained there on 28 July 1785. The two pastors worked together, though Manning was an
Arian
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, while Kenrick followed Belsham in theology, and drew up (1792) the preamble of the Western Unitarian Society, excluding Arians.
In 1798 Kenrick declined an invitation to the divinity chair in the
Manchester Academy
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. In the summer of 1799 he opened a dissenting academy at Exeter, with
Joseph Bretland
Joseph Bretland (1742–1819), was an English dissenting minister.
Life
He was the son of Joseph Bretland, an Exeter tradesman, was born at Exeter 22 May 1742. He was for several years a day scholar at the Exeter grammar school, and was placed ...
. He followed the Daventry model, and used a library formed for the academy run (1690–1720) by
Joseph Hallett II, and revived (1760–71) under
Samuel Merivale. In Kenrick's academy, which closed on 25 March 1805, eleven students, including
James Hews Bransby, received the whole, and four others, including Kenrick's eldest son, a part of their training.
Kenrick died suddenly while on a visit to
Wrexham
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, on 22 August 1804. He was buried on 26 August in the dissenters' graveyard at
Rhosddu
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At the 2011 Census, the population of the community ...
, near Wrexham, where there was an inscription to his memory.
A harsh portrayal of Kenrick was in ''Particulars of the Life of a Dissenting Minister … Written by Himself'' (1813) by
Charles Lloyd.
Works
Kenrick published four sermons (1788–1795), and there appeared posthumously:
* ''Discourses on Various Topics'', 1805, 2 vols.
* ''An Exposition of the Historical Writings of the New Testament'', 1807, 3 vols. (with ''Memoir'' by
John Kentish), a work representative of the exegesis of the older Unitarian school.
Family
Kenrick married, first, in 1786, Mary (died 1793), daughter of John Waymouth of Exeter, who died in giving birth to her sixth child.
John
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* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
, the eldest son, is known as a classical historian. George Kenrick (1792–1874), the fourth was born at Exeter on 28 October 1792, and became a pupil of
Lant Carpenter
Lant Carpenter, Dr. (2 September 1780 – 5 or 6 April 1840) was an English educator and Christian Unitarianism, Unitarian Minister (Christianity), minister.
Early life
Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster, the third son of George Carpenter ...
. He studied at
Glasgow College (1808–10) and
Manchester College, York
Harris Manchester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarian students and moved to Oxford in 1893. It became a full college of th ...
(1810–13), and was Unitarian minister at
Chesterfield
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** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constitue ...
(1813–1814),
Kingston-upon-Hull
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It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east o ...
(1815–21),
Maidstone
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(1822–6),
Hampstead
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(1829–45), and
Battle, Sussex
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(1845–7). He was a trustee of
Dr. Williams's foundations, 1833–60. In 1860 he retired in poor health to
Tunbridge Wells
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, where he died on 2 December 1874. He married, first, in 1817, the youngest daughter of Richard Hodgson, Unitarian minister at
Doncaster
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; secondly, Lucy, sister of
Sir John Bowring
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; thirdly, Sarah (died 1888), daughter of Thomas Walters. He published sermons and contributed to the ''
Monthly Repository
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'' and other periodicals.
Kenrick married secondly, in 1794, Elizabeth (d. 1819), second daughter of James Belsham, and sister of his former tutor. They had no children.
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Attribution
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kenrick, Timothy
1759 births
1804 deaths
Welsh Unitarians
Dissenting academy tutors
People from Ruabon
18th-century Welsh people