Author: Lamport, William
Biography:
LAMPORT, William (1772-1848: ancestry.com)
No baptism record has been found but several sources state that he was the eldest son of the Rev. William Lamport, Dissenting Minister at Uffculme, Devon, and his wife Grace Stocker. They had married at Honiton in 1771 and went on to have at least eight children. He was educated at the Rev. Joseph Cornish’s classical school and Colyton grammar before studying at John Horsey’s Academy in Northampton (1789-95). He returned to Devon and became Minister to the dissenting congregation in Poole (1794-1804). He then served as minister to the Presbyterian Chapel (Unitarian) and Principal of the Academy in St. Nicholas Street. He married Frances Noble on 28 June 1814 at Caton, Lancashire. There was no issue. He opened a school at Moorlands, near Lancaster, in 1822. From 1829 to 1833, he was in Liverpool where he opened a school in Chatham Street. He moved to Manchester in 1833 and operated a school in the old Rusholme Road Academy. He died 14 July 1848 at Lloyd Street, Greenhayes, Manchester, and was buried at the Unitarian Chapel in Upper Brook Street. A few hymns from Sacred Poetry (1825) achieved wider currency when they were included in James Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home (1859) and Hymns of Praise and Prayer (1874) but his interests in later life were more pedagogical than theological. In June 1819 he proposed publishing his sermons by subscription but they do not appear to have been published. His only other works of significance are A Sermon . . . [on] the Death of Princess Charlotte Augusta (1817) and An Essay Towards An Improved Plan of Classical Education (1819). (ancestry.co.uk 20 Jan. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 20 Jan. 2022; Protestant Dissenter’s Magazine July 1796, 279-80; Universal Theological Magazine Feb. 1804, 112; GM Sept. 1848, 326; Lancaster Gazette, Liverpool Mercury, Manchester Times [various issues]; Dissenting Academies Online) AA