Author: Coldwell, William
Biography:
COLDWELL, William (1768-1836: ancestry.co.uk)
John Holland (q.v.), the Sheffield poet, scholar, and literary editor, states that Coldwell was a native of Skipwith, near York, and spent most of his life in Sheffield working as a geological surveyor and architect, and was also a Methodist New Connexion preacher. He also records that he obtained a copy of The Psalms or Sacred Odes (1821) from a daughter of Coldwell’s. However, no baptism or marriage can be established with any certainty. A newspaper obituary adds to Holland’s account that he spent some time in London, living in King’s Square, Clerkenwell, and that he contributed to Samuel Drew’s Imperial Magazine. It also gives an exact date of death and age at death, as do cemetery records, whereas Holland gave an age at death of 65. He died at Dale Street, Liverpool, on 2 Mar. 1836, aged 68, and was buried in St. James’s Cemetery there. (ancestry.co.uk 27 May 2023; J. Horsfall Turner, Halifax Books and Authors [1906], 123-4; John Holland, The Psalmists of Britain [1843], 2: 291-6; Julian, 923; Preston Chronicle 12 Mar. 1836; Wesleyan Methodist Magazine Mar. 1836, 316) AA