Background
The nephew of John Angier, he was born at Dedham 28 August 1639, and was a pupil of Richard Busby.
assistant nonconformist minister
The nephew of John Angier, he was born at Dedham 28 August 1639, and was a pupil of Richard Busby.
Christ Church.
He went to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1659, but was compelled to leave by the Acting of Uniformity 1662. At his uncle"s death many people supported Samuel Angier as his successor. The warden and fellows of Manchester, however, were not disposed to appoint another nonconformist, and the Review
John Ogden was nominated.
But great difficulty was experienced in inducing Samuel Angier to give up possession of the house. He retired to the adjacent village of Dukinfield.
He had to suffer for his nonconformity, and in 1680 was excommunicated. But under the Acting of Toleration in 1689 he became minister of a dissenting meeting at Dukinfield, where a chapel was built for him in 1708.
In his later years he was almost blind, and died 8 November 1713.
Angier kept a register of "christenings and some marriages and funerals" from 1677 to 1713. One entry relates to the death, 20 February 1698, of another Samuel Angier, who is believed to have been a minister of the "ancient chapel" of Toxteth Park, Liverpool.
