Background
The son of William Glazebrook, he was born at Madeley, Shropshire, on 11 October 1744.
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James Glazebrook
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With this view he was educated at Lady Huntingdon"s Trevecca College in South Wales.
Career
When he was a young man of twenty-three, working as a collier and getter of ironstone, he was brought under the influence of the Review John William Fletcher, and decided to become a clergyman. Glazebrook was ordained deacon by Brownlow North, the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in December 1771, and six years later he received priest"s orders.
On being appointed vicar of Belton, Leicestershire in 1796, in bad health, he left Warrington, but he retained his incumbency at Saint James"son
He died at Belton on 1 July 1803. In 1770 Glazebrook married Dorothy, daughter of Doctor Thomas Kirkland.
