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Author: Pickering, John

Biography:

PICKERING, John (fl 1830)

Pickering’s Poetical Miscellany of “pathetical and consolatory poems,” appeared in the Midlands (Birmingham, Darlaston, Balston, Nuneaton) in 1830. He was probably a native of Warwickshire, but no reliable public records have been found regarding his background and family. He was a dissenter; he defines himself on title-pages as an “Independent minister,” and he was trained at the quite recently established dissenting academy of Highbury College in London. From there he was sent to Nuneaton in 1831, moved on to Wednesbury in 1838, and died shortly after—possibly the John Pickering whose death at Atherstone, near Nuneaton, was registered in 1842. But he had been preaching or lecturing for some time in the area before 1830, for his miscellany includes a list of his other publications: Popery in its own Colours(1828), a series of lectures delivered at the Independent Chapel of Darlaston; A Letter on Baptism; and An Essay on the Final Restitution of All Things. It also contains poems about events in the county, such as an industrial accident at the Wednesbury forge in 1824. (findmypast.com 9 Oct. 2023; ancestry.com 9 Oct. 2023; John Sibree and M. Caston, Independency in Warwickshire [1855], 213-14)

 

Other Names:

  • J. Pickering
 

Books written (1):

Birmingham/ Darlaston/ Bilston/ Nuneaton: E. R. Edwards, J. W. Showell, and W. Broomhall/ T. Slater/ F. Nokes/ T. Lees, 1830