Lant Carpenter

Lant Carpenter, Dr. (September 2, 1780 - April 5/6, 1840) was an English educator and Unitarian minister.

Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster, the son of Thomas Carpenter (bap. 9 Oct 1747 in Kidderminster, Worcester, England) and his wife Elizabeth. Thomas Carpenter was a carpet manufacturer.

After some months at a non-conformist academy at Northampton, Lant Carpenter transferred to the University of Glasgow and then joined the ministry. After a short time as assistant master at a Unitarian school near Birmingham, in 1802 he was appointed librarian at the Liverpool Athenaeum.

In 1805 he became pastor of a chapel in Exeter, and he became the father of William Benjamin Carpenter. Later he moved to Bristol in (1817). At both Bristol and Exeter he was also engaged in school work, among his Bristol pupils being Harriet and James Martineau, Samuel Greg, and the Westminster Review's John Bowring.

Lant Carpenter did much to broaden the spirit of English Unitarianism. He believed in the essential lawfulness of the creation: this meant that natural causes were the explanation of the world as we find it. The rite of baptism seemed to him a superstition and he substituted for it a form of infant dedication.

His health, undermined by his constant labours, broke down in 1839 and he was ordered to travel. He was drowned, having been washed overboard from the steamer in which he was travelling from Livorno to Marseille.

Family information

Lant Carpenter, Dr. was christened on 2 Sep 1780 in Kidderminster, Worcester, England. He died on 5/6 Apr 1840.

See BRITISH NATIONAL RECORD ARCHIEVES: http://www.hmc.gov.uk/NRA/searches/PIdocs.asp?P=4958 Historical Manuscripts Commission, UK National Register of Archives, Lant Carpenter,(1780-1840) Unitarian minister, 1799-1877: corresp (1 bundle, c203 items), Oxford University: Harris Manchester College Library, Reference: MSS Lant Carpenter, NRA 19870 Manchester Coll, see HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987.

Lant Carpenter married Anna or Hannah Penn, daughter of John Penn and Mary, in 1806 in , Worcester, England. Anna was Christened on 11 May 1787 in Bromsgrove, Worcester, England.

Their marriage had the following issue:

1) Mary Carpenter { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carpenter } was born on 3 Apr 1807 in Kiddermenster, Worcester, England. She died on 14 Jun 1877 and was buried in Arno's Vale, Bristol,, England. Mary was founder of the ragged school movement. Mentioned in brother William's insert in the "Dictionary of Scientific Biography" by Charles Coulton Gillispie.

2) William Benjamin Carpenter { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Benjamin_Carpenter } was born on 29 Oct 1813 in Exter, Devonshire, England. He died on 19 Nov 1885 in London,, England and was buried in Highgate Cem., Highgate, London, England.

3) Russell Lant Carpenter was born in 1816 in Kiddermenster, Worcester, England and was christened in , Devonshire, England. He died in 1892.

See BRITISH NATIONAL RECORD ARCHIEVES: http://www.hmc.gov.uk/NRA/searches/PIdocs.asp?P=44474 Historical Manuscripts Commission, UK National Register of Archives, Russell Lant Carpenter, (1816-1892) Unitarian minister, corresp and papers, Oxford University: Harris Manchester College Library, Reference : MSS [R] L Carpenter, see Catalogue of manuscripts in Harris Manchester College Oxford, 1998.

4) Phillip Pearsall Carpenter, Rev. was born on 4 Nov 1819 in Bristol, Somerset, England. He died on 24 May 1877 in Montreal,, Canada of Typhoid Fever. A noted conchologist.

Phillip married Minnie Meyer in 1860 in Hamburg,, Germany. Minnie was born about 1830 in of, Hamburg,, Germany. Their children were: a) Susan Carpenter was born in 1809 in Kiddermenster, Worcester, England. and b) Anna Carpenter was born in 1811 in Kiddermenster, Worcester, England.

Notes for P.P. Carpenter: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/CarpenterP.P.html Philip Pearsall Carpenter occupation: Amateur Conchologist; English Presbyterian Minister (ordained in England in 1841); Author; Publisher. Volunteer conchologist at the British Museum1833-58; volunteer, New York State Cabinet of Natural History, Albany, 1858-60; Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, 1859; working conchologist, Smithsonian Institution, 1859-60; Curator, Warrington Museum, England, 1860-65; Conchologist, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, 1867-77. Education: Received first degree of Doctor of Philosophy granted by the Regents of the State of New York in 1860. Research Interests: Conchology. Pandoridae, Caecidae, and Chitonidae.

Other References for P. P. Carpenter:

Coan, E.V. 1969. A bibliography of the biological writings of Philip Pearsall Carpenter. Veliger 12(2):222-225.

Conde, V. 1961. Redpath Museum. [A memorial to Philip Pearsal Carpenter]. (Abstract). American Malacological Union, Inc. Annual Reports. 1960(27):12-13.

Dall, W.H. 1877. Dr. Philip Pearsall Carpenter. American Naturalist 11(8):504-505.

Galbraith, I.C.J., and P. Dance. 1961. British Museum (Natural History). [A memorial to Philip Pearsal Carpenter]. (Abstract). American Malacological Union, Inc. Annual Reports. 1960(27):10-12.

Gould, A.A., and P.P. Carpenter. 1856. Descriptions of shells from the Gulf of California and the Pacific coasts of Mexico and California. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1856(24):198-208.

Hanna, G.D., L.G. Hertlein, and A.G. Smith. 1961. California Academy of Sciences. [A memorial to Philip Pearsal Carpenter]. (Abstract). American Malacological Union, Inc. Annual Reports. 1960(27):9-10.

Kellogg, R., and H.A. Rehder. 1961. Smithsonian Institution. [A memorial to Philip Pearsal Carpenter]. (Abstract). American Malacological Union, Inc. Annual Reports. 1960(27):12.

Palmer, K.V.W. 1956. Philip P. Carpenter, his life and work in Pacific Coast conchology. (Abstract). American Malacological Union, Inc. Annual Reports. 1956(22)

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Partial Bibliography for P. P. Carpenter:

Gould, A.A., and P.P. Carpenter. 1856. Descriptions of shells from the Gulf of California and the Pacific coasts of Mexico and California. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1856(24):198-208.

Carpenter, P.P. 1856. Monograph of the shells collected by T. Nuttall, Esq., on the California coast, in the years 1834-5. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1856(24):209-229. Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the west coast of North America. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1856:159-368 + 4 plates. Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the collection of Mazataln shells, in the British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen. London. 552 pp. Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells, in the British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen. 2nd ed. Oberlin Press, Warrington i-viii + i- xii + 552 pp. Carpenter, P.P. [1857] 1967. [reprint of] Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells, in the British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen. [British Museum, London] Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY i-iv + ix-xvi + 552 pp. Carpenter, P.P. 1860. Lectures on mollusks. Smithsonian Report 1860:117.Carpenter, P.P. 1872. The mollusks of Western North America, 1872. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 12:1-446.

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