Author: Causton, John Davis
Biography:
CAUSTON, John David (1777-1843: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 26 May 1777 and baptised on 5 Oct. at Braintree, Essex, the third of four children of Rev. Samuel Causton (1749-78), curate of Little Waldingfield and schoolmaster of Lavenham (both Suffolk) and his wife Lydia Davis (1754-79), who had married at Braintree in 1773. It is not known who brought him up after his parents’ early deaths. He married Mary Harrington on 22 Nov. 1804 at Lavenham. They had two sons and a daughter. He became a schoolmaster in Lavenham but moved to nearby Boxford around 1810. They later moved to London, where he published Christian Sonnets (1817) and became involved in the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, which had been founded in 1809 by evangelicals and was based at 10 Wardrobe Place, Doctors’ Commons, London, and had built an Episcopal Chapel in Old Nichol Street, Bethnal Green, in 1814. He was listed as the publisher of one of their publications: J. S. Holmyard, The Psalms, Hymns and Miscellaneous Pieces as Sung at the Episcopal Chapel (1820). There is, however, no further evidence of him as a printer or publisher and he may simply have organised the publication. By 1841 he worshipped at the Episcopal Chapel, Eaton Square, and was living at 16 Caroline Street, Chester Terrace, Pimlico, with his occupation given as accountant. He died there in 1843 and was buried at Brompton Cemetery on 29 Jan. Shortly before his death he published another volume of religious verse, Day of Christ (1842). (ancestry.co.uk 20 Jan. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 20 Jan. 2023; CCEd 20 Jan. 2023; Ipswich Journal 14 Jan. 1843) AA
Other Names:
- J. D. Causton