Education
He was educated at the dissenting academy of Ebenezer Latham, Doctor of Medicine, at Findern, Derbyshire, from 1720.
He was educated at the dissenting academy of Ebenezer Latham, Doctor of Medicine, at Findern, Derbyshire, from 1720.
At this time his views, in accordance with his education, were Calvinistic. The congregation was small, but after Cardale"s settlement it afforded to build a small new meeting-house, in Oat Street (licensed 11 October 1737). Cardale was well known only to a few literary divines.
One of these was John Rawlins, Master of Arts, an Anglican of Catholic sympathies, who among other preferments held the perpetual curacy of Badsey, two miles from Evesham.
Joseph Priestley, to whom Cardale sent two pieces for the Theological Repository, did not know him personally. Though not popular as a preacher, Cardale as a writer on Socinian theology proved influential, and the manuscript of his most important publication, ‘True Doctrine,’ was revised by Nathaniel Lardner.
Latterly, his sedentary habits impaired his health, but his mind was keen. On 28 February 1775 he put the finishing touch to a work, retired to rest, and died in his sleep before dawn on Wednesday, 1 March.
He was buried in the north aisle of All Saints", Evesham, with an epitaph written by his friend Rawlins.
Cardale married Sarah Suffield, a lady of some property, three years his senior, who died without issue about 1767.