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Author: Allnatt, Charles Atherton

Biography:

ALLNATT, Charles Atherton (1767-1850: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 19 Apr. 1767 at St. Mary, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, the son of John Allnatt and Molly Atherton, who had married in the same church on 20 Dec. 1762. He was apprenticed to his father, an attorney, for five years in 1781. He married Martha Blake on 19 May 1791 at Wallingford. They went on to have at least eight children. He and his father, together with Edward Wells and his sons, created the Wallingford bank. He went on to be active in civic and political life, campaigning against corruption and supporting the Tory cause. Poverty (1801), written to “promote humanity and benevolence, morality and religion” in “the solitary hours of a long sickness” consisted of dull religious poems, broadly sympathetic to Methodism. At the time Wallingford was a poor agricultural district with high unemployment just north of Reading. In later life, employees who voted against him in elections suddenly became unemployed (although this was fairly standard practice for the day). He died on 4 June 1850 at Wallingford, with his occupation given as Magistrate and Father of the Corporation. (ancestry.co.uk 7 Jul. 2021; Reading Mercury 8 Jun. 1850; GM Jul. 1850, 103; OFHS; George Leekey, The Stamp-Office List of Country Bankers [1813]) AA

 

Other Names:

  • Charles A. Allnatt
 

Books written (1):

Shrewsbury/ London/ Wallingford/ Oxford/ Reading/ Bristol: Hambleton/ Matthews, and Longman and Rees/ Cooke/ Rusher/ Biggs and Co., 1801