Charles Inman (banker) explained
Charles Inman (1791–1858) was an English merchant, businessperson and banker, a director of the Bank of Liverpool.[1]
Early life
He was son of Robert Inman, merchant of Lancaster, and his first wife Anne Salisbury, daughter of Thomas Salisbury of Kirkham; and grandson of the slave-trader Charles Inman (1725–1767).[2] [3]
Inman was apprenticed to his cousin, a cotton broker in Liverpool.[4] The cotton merchants traded as Swainson & Inman in the 1820s.[5] The partnership of Charles Inman and Anthony Swainson was dissolved in 1831.[6] Anthony Swainson (born 1782) was brother to Charles Swainson of Preston, and their mother was Susannah Inman, daughter of Charles Inman the elder.[7]
Career
In 1818 Inman left Liverpool for Leicester: he was one of three partners who put in capital from 1817 to re-finance the Pickfords firm of carriers.[8] One of the other partners was Joseph Baxendale. From 1809 he had been a partner in the Bannister Hall company headed by Charles Swainson.[9] With Inman at Leicester, the other management was Matthew Pickford and Baxendale in Manchester, and Zachary Langton in London.[10] Over time Baxendale bought out Inman and Langton, obtaining complete control in 1847.[9] On withdrawing from Pickfords, in 1838 over Sabbatarian concerns, Inman returned to Liverpool.[11] [12]
A director of the Bank of Liverpool, Inman was first on the board in 1838. He then served from 1840 to 1858, in parallel with Adam Hodgson who outlived him.[13] [14]
Later life and death
Later in life, Inman moved from Netherfield Road, Everton, to Spital Hall, Bebington, in the Wirral. He died there on 11 November 1858.[2] His funeral service was given by the Rev. Edward Hatch Hoare of Barkby, an associate from the Church Missionary Society in Leicester. He was buried in Bebington churchyard.[15] [16] The site of the large Netherfield Road house was put to use with the Institution for Infectious Diseases. It was a hospital, having some finance from Liverpool Town Council to fulfil the terms of the 1866 Contagious Diseases Act.[17] [18]
Family and legacy
Inman married in 1817 Jane Clay, daughter of Thomas Clay of Liverpool;[19] her sister Mary married Anthony Swainson.[7] They had eight children, including Thomas Inman, the second son, and William Inman.[4] [20]
- Robert Inman, eldest son, died 1871 aged 52.[21]
- Charles Inman, third son, married in 1853 Decima Davies, daughter of Thomas Lancaster Davies MD of Jamaica.[22] [23]
- Their daughter Elizabeth married in 1852 Charles Swainson.[24]
Jane Inman died in 1865 at Spital Hall, at age 72.[25]
St Peter's Church, Sackville Street, Everton (Church of England) was completed in 1849.[26] Inman donated the land, laid the foundation stone in a ceremony where the architect Mr Hay (of Hay of Liverpool) showed the plans, and gave much of the building cost.[27] [28] His daughter Elizabeth's marriage took place there, in 1852.[29]
The church was destroyed in 1942.[30]
Notes and References
- Book: The Biograph and Review . 1880 . 467 . en.
- Web site: Charles Inman of Spital Old Hall, 15th Nov 1791 - 11th Nov 1858, Legacies of British Slavery . www.ucl.ac.uk.
- Book: Burke . Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland . 1882 . Harrison . iv . en.
- 14426. Anita. McConnell. Inman, Thomas (1820–1876).
- Book: Ellison . Thomas . The Cotton Trade of Great Britain: Including a History of the Liverpool Cotton Market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association . 1886 . E. Wilson . 205 note . en.
- Book: The London Gazette . 1831 . T. Neuman . 1399 . en.
- Book: Burke . Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland . 1863 . Harrison . 1462 . en.
- Book: Chapman . Charles . The Ocean Waves: Travels by Land and Sea . 1875 . G. Berridge . 58 . en.
- 37164. T. D.. Baxendale. Baxendale, Joseph (1785–1872).
- Book: Turnbull . Gerald L. . Traffic and Transport: An Economic History of Pickfords . 13 August 2019 . Routledge . 978-1-000-62842-5 . 43 . en.
- Book: Maginnis . Arthur J. . The Atlantic Ferry: Its Ships, Men, and Working . 1892 . Whittaker . 210 . en.
- Book: Lords . Great Britain Parliament House of . Reports from Select Committees of the House of Lords and Evidence . 1841 . 92 . en.
- Book: Secord . James A. . Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation . 20 October 2003 . University of Chicago Press . 978-0-226-74411-7 . 208 . en.
- Book: Chandler . George . Four Centuries of Banking: The Grasshopper and the Liver Bird, Liverpool and London . 1964 . B. T. Batsford . 542. I . en.
- News: The Late Charles Inman Esq. . Leicester Journal . 19 November 1858. 8.
- Book: Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East . 1828 . Church Missionary House . 45 . en.
- News: Opening of the Everton Hospital . Liverpool Mail . 9 November 1872. 5.
- Book: Gorsky . Martin . Sheard . Sally . Financing Medicine: The British Experience Since 1750 . 3 October 2006 . Routledge . 978-1-134-26877-1 . 123 . en.
- News: Married . Leicester Chronicle . 4 October 1817. 4.
- 14427. Alan G.. Jamieson. Inman, William (1825–1881).
- News: Deaths . Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser . 19 January 1871. 1.
- Book: The Gentleman's Magazine . 1853 . W. Pickering . 628 . en.
- Web site: Thomas Lancaster Davies 1798–1838, Legacies of British Slavery . www.ucl.ac.uk.
- 26815. H. C. G.. Matthew. Swainson, Charles Anthony (1820–1887).
- News: Deaths . Leicester Guardian . 25 November 1865. 5.
- Web site: Townships: Everton, British History Online . www.british-history.ac.uk.
- News: The Late Charles Inman . Liverpool Albion . 22 November 1858. 11.
- News: St. Peter's (New) Church, Everton . Liverpool Mail . 3 March 1849. 2.
- Web site: Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project : Marriages at St Peter in the District of Everton, Liverpool : Marriages recorded in the Register for 1851 - 1861 . www.lan-opc.org.uk.
- Web site: Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project - City of Liverpool . www.lan-opc.org.uk.
