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Author: Stowell, Hugh

Biography:

STOWELL, Hugh (1799-1865: ODNB)

Stowell was a Manxman born at Douglas, Isle of Man, to Amelia (Callow) and the Rev. Hugh Stowell. His father (1768-1836) was the author of a biography (1829) of Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, and other Christian biographies. The younger Stowell graduated from Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1822 (MA 1826), was ordained in 1823, and began an influential career as a clergyman, especially active in the north of England. He was an effective extemporary preacher, a leader in evangelical circles, a spokesman for his working-class congregations, and a fierce opponent of Roman Catholicism. In 1828 he married Anne Susannah Ashworth from Pendleton, Lancashire. They settled in Salford, Lancs., where a new church was built for him in 1831, and where he remained for the rest of his life. The couple had nine children. Stowell published no more poetry after the anonymous collection of 1830, but he did bring out a selection of hymns (1851) besides polemical pamphlets, lectures, and spiritual guides that were sometimes reprinted by the Religious Tract Society. He was made an honorary Canon of Chester in 1845. He died at home in Pendleton and is buried in Salford under the church where he had preached for most of his life. (ODNB 25 Oct. 2020; ancestry.com 25 Oct. 2020)

 

Other Names:

  • H. Stowell
 

Books written (2):

Dublin/ London/ Edinburgh: William Curry, Jr., and Co./ Hurst, Chance, and Co./ Oliver and Boyd, 1830
London: C. J. G. and F. Rivington, and Hatchard and Son, 1832