Background
Edward Adey was born on 31 March 1799 in Turnham Green, but was christened in Hammersmith the following month. He was the second child and son of Daniel and Catherine Adey.
Edward Adey was born on 31 March 1799 in Turnham Green, but was christened in Hammersmith the following month. He was the second child and son of Daniel and Catherine Adey.
His first appointment was in Leighton Buzzard, a job he was hold for 25 years and a place where he would eventually be buried. In 1832 there was a split in the church as some objected to the pastor. A new stricter chapel was formed that did not allow the open communion that was practised at Lake Street.
He was known to William Wilberforce and he is one of the people chosen to appear in Haydon"s picture of the 1840 Anti-slavery convention where the aged Thomas Clarkson is shown addressing the first international convention on anti-slavery.
One of the people who Adey preached with on a tour of the south Midlands was William Knibb, a Jamaican missionary. Knibb also attended the 1840 Anti-Slavery convention.
Many notable people are in this painting including Lady Byron, Daniel O"Connell, Thomas Fowell Buxton and Richard Tapper Cadbury )who was just behind Adey in the painting). In 1863, Adey was instrumental in forming a Baptist church in Brackley in Northamptonshire.
Adey married Mary Linnell in 1835 and had four children although one died young.
He died in Leighton Buzzard on 28 April 1876.
Adey was an active member of the Anti-Slavery Society advising on such matters as how to free those slaves who were held in the Danish colonies.