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Title	Letter c. 1795 from H. Thornton to Joseph Hardcastle
Post Date	ca. 1795
Author	Thornton, H.
Recipient	Hardcastle, Joseph (1752-1818)
Date	1795-xx-xx
Physical Description	2 pp. total; 1 p. text; 1 p. address
Dimensions	21.3 x 28.4 cm
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 2, File 69
Address To	Duck's Foot Lane, Cannon Street, London
Country To	England
Transcriber	Gareth Lloyd
Plain Text Transcription	From [Henry] Thornton to Joseph Hardcastle at Duck’s Foot Lane in Cannon Street, London. He is returning the enclosed documents with thanks for the opportunity to peruse them. He has also sent the extracts from [Zachary] Macauley’s journal to [Samuel] Greatheed at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire to be forwarded to [Andrew] Fuller at Kettering in Northamptonshire. As for the Foulah mission he is pleased that such a plan is being put into effect but is afraid that unless the war [against France] ends soon, there will be too much risk involved in missions as well as many other activities. He agrees with Hardcastle that they must wait to hear from Macauley. [William] Dawes who lives at Newtown Portsmouth will be a good advisor on the detail. (1 sheet, 1p.) n.d. [c.1795] Henry Thornton (1760-1815) was a wealthy banker and philanthropist, who gave away much of his annual income to worthy causes. The son of a generous supporter of the early evangelicals, Thornton carried on this tradition by serving as treasurer of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. A close friend of William Wilberforce with whom he shared a house for five years, Thornton used his position as member of parliament for Southwark to promote anti slavery legislation. Thornton was also an economist of note and did much to influence financial strategy during Pitt's administration. Joseph Hardcastle (1752-1819) was born in Leeds. He moved to London at the age of fifteen and joined his uncle in business. A member of the Bury Street Independent Chapel, he was very actively engaged in evangelical causes as a director of the Sierra Leone Company from 1791 and treasurer of the LMS. In 1802 he accompanied William Wilberforce to Paris with a mind to starting evangelistic work there and as a result became involved in the British and Foreign and Bible Society Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838) was born at Inverary in Scotland, the son of a Church of Scotland minister. At the age of sixteen, he went to Jamaica to work as a bookkeeper and quickly rose to the position of manager of a plantation. However he became so disgusted by slavery that he returned to Britain in 1792 and a year later went to Sierra Leone to assist Thomas Clarkson whom he replaced after a short while as governor. Macauley was in charge of the colony for six years and despite many problems and the threat of invasion, it prospered under his supervision. He returned home after his health broke down and became secretary of the Sierra Leone Company until the colony’s transfer to the Crown. Macauley was one of the foremost abolitionists of his day. His chief strengths lay in his immense energy, powers of organisation and encyclopedic knowledge of statistics. He was a member of several committees and served as secretary of the African Institute from 1807 to 1812. Macauley was also a founder member of the Anti-Slavery Society and was honorary president of the French Society for the Abolition of Slavery. A devout evangelical, Macauley was the first editor of the Christian Observer and was actively involved in the work of no fewer than twenty-three charitable and religious societies including the Church Missionary Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society. He also had a keen interest in education and served on the founding committee of London University. Samuel Greatheed (d.1823) was a retired army officer who after leaving the military became an independent minister. He went on to become a joint founder of the London Missionary Society and the first editor of the Eclectic Review. Greatheed was a close friend of the poet William Cowper and preached Cowper's funeral sermon. Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) was born at Wicken in Cambridgeshire. Converted at a local Baptist Church as a youth, he soon became the pastor of the congregation. In 1782 he moved to the church at Kettering and was to remain there for the rest of his life. Fuller became the first secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 and was unstinting in his support of missionary activities. He was also a theologian of considerable repute whose preaching and published works influenced his denomination to move away from the doctrine of Hyper-Calvinism. His formidable scholarship resulted in the award of a DD by New Jersey in 1798 and by Yale in 1805. A West African tribe. William Dawes (1762-1836) was commissioned in the Royal Marines and participated in the first convict settlement at Botany Bay in New South Wales in 1787. Dawes was a man of unyielding principle and was dismissed for refusing to take part in an attack on Aborigines. He returned to England was recruited by the Sierra Leone Company for their West African settlement – he was appointed governor in 1793 but was the subject of complaints on account of his rigid ways. Dawes resigned in 1796 and worked as a schoolmaster in England before returning to Sierra Leone in 1801 where he was wounded in a war against a local chieftain. In 1803 he came back to England and started a missionary seminary for the Church Missionary Society. Dawes emigrated to Antigua in 1813 and remained there for the rest of his life as an agent for the CMS.
Notes	Joseph Hardcastle was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. Red wax seal. Dated "Saty night."
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1790-1799