William Urwick the younger (1826–1905) was an Anglo-Irish nonconformist minister and antiquarian chronicler.
Born at Sligo on 8 March 1826, he was second son of William Urwick the elder (1791–1868), nonconformist divine, and his wife Sarah (1791–1852), daughter of Thomas Cooke of Shrewsbury. His early education was under his father. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. in 1848, M.A. in 1851. From Dublin he went on to the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester, where he studied (1848–51) under Robert Vaughan and Samuel Davidson.[1]
On 19 June 1851 Urwick was ordained minister at Hatherlow, Cheshire, where he remained for twenty-three years, as pastor, and district secretary (later, president) of the Cheshire Congregational Union. Moving to London, he filled (1874–7) the chair of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at New College, London. Still living in London, he became in 1880 minister of Spicer Street chapel in St. Albans, where he rebuilt the Sunday schools, improved the church premises, and undertook temperance and other social work, resigning in 1895.[1]
On a visit to his sisters in the old family home at Dublin, Urwick died there on 20 August 1905.[1]
Urwick published:[1]
He also translated from the German:[1]
Urwick edited his father's Biographic Sketches of J. D. Latouche (1868), and T. A. Urwick's Records of the Family of … Urwick (1893).[1]
Urwick married on 1 June 1859 Sophia (1832–1897), daughter of Thomas Hunter of Manchester. They had four sons and five daughters.[1]
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