Author: BATTY, Christopher
Biography:
BATTY, Christopher (1716-97: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the second son of Egidius (Gyles or Giles) Batty (1682-1764) of Newby Cote, near Settle in Yorkshire, and his wife Maria Robinson. His elder brother was William Batty (q.v.); a younger brother, Laurence, was admitted to St. Catharine’s, Cambridge, in 1738. He was baptised in the established church at Clapham, Yorkshire, on 21 Feb. 1716 but Batty, like his elder brother, became an Inghamite—that is, a follower of Benjamin Ingham who had organised his connexion as a separate denomination in 1756. With James Allen he wrote A Collection of Hymns (Kendal, 1757); the preface is signed J.A. and C.B. He became an itinerant preacher and suffered persecution. Batty married Alice Redman (1729-94) on 27 Dec. 1759; William Batty and Benjamin Ingham were witnesses. They had at least two sons and two daughters. He died at Kendal, Westmoreland, on 19 Apr. 1797 and was buried by the chapel in Kendal on 21 Apr. (ODNB [for Benjamin Ingham]; ancestry.co.uk 30 May 2023; Joseph Belcher, Historical Sketches of Hymns, Their Writers, and Their Influence [1859]; A. C. H. Seynour, The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntington [1841]) SR