Author: Greenwood, Thomas
Biography:
GREENWOOD, Thomas (1793-1835: ancestry.co.uk)
He was probably born on 12 May 1793 and baptised on 30 May at Call Lane Chapel, Leeds (Arian Independent), the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Greenwood. He was educated at the Charity school in Leeds under the Rev. Joseph Whiteley, curate of Beeston, and at the late age of thirty-three proceeded to Trinity College Cambridge (matric. 1826, BA 1830, MA 1833), presumably having conformed. There appears to be no record of his ordination but he subsequently became lecturer at St. Giles, Cripplegate, City of London, and chaplain to the Company of Coopers, and was recorded as clergy in Clapham, Surrey (now south London), on his marriage to Elizabeth Binfield Crawford on 9 Aug. 1830 at St. Luke’s, Finsbury, Islington, London. There appears to have been no issue. He died on 25 Jan. 1835 at Barnsbury Street, Islington. His wife, Elizabeth, remarried in 1840 and died in 1859. Scripture Sketches (1830), written while he lived in Clapham, consists of his sacred poetry (“The Outcast,” “Hagar and Ishmael”), the occasional topographical poem (“Helvellyn,” “Derwent Lake”), translations, and hymns written for Sunday school. A few poems had previously appeared in the annuals, Amulet and Literary Souvenir. A prose work, The Latest Heresy: or Modern Pretensions to the Miraculous Gifts of Healing and of Tongues Condemned by Reason and Scripture (1832), was quite well received in its day but has long since been forgotten. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Jan. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 28 Jan. 2024; OUCH 31 Jan. 1835; GM Mar. 1835, 330) AA