Author: Barnard, Samuel
Biography:
BARNARD, Samuel (1751?-1807: ancestry.co.uk)
A dissenting minister in Lady Huntingdon’s circle, he may have been the Samuel Barnard, son of John and Elizabeth Barnard, whose baptism on 31 Jan. 1751 in Wickhambrook, Suffolk, is recorded in the non-conformist registers. He trained for the ministry at Trevecca College (founded 1768) in Wales. He was a preacher at Kingston-Upon-Hull until about 1800 and moved to the Howard Street Chapel in Sheffield in 1803. The first name of his wife was Christian; her surname and the date of the marriage are not known. She died aged 53 on 8 Aug. 1804 and was buried in the Howard Street burial ground. It is not known if they had children. Samuel Barnard died on 7 July 1807, aged 56. A notice of his death in GM recorded that “for many years he was one of the most useful and popular preachers in the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion.” (ancestry.co.uk 16 Nov. 2022; surman.english.qmul.ac.uk 16 Nov. 2022; GM 77 [1807] 689) SR