Background
He was descended from an eminent nonconformist family which had lived for nearly two centuries at Little Lever and at Rivington Hall, near Bolton, Lancashire.
minister translator of Virgil poet
He was descended from an eminent nonconformist family which had lived for nearly two centuries at Little Lever and at Rivington Hall, near Bolton, Lancashire.
He received his theological education at the Dissenting academy of Doctor Caleb Rotheram, at Kendal. He stayed there about three years.