Charles Inman (banker)

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Charles Inman
Born1791 (1791)
Lancashire, England
Died1858 (aged 66–67)
Bebington, England
OccupationBanker
Spouse
Jane Clay
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(m. 1817)​
Children8

Charles Inman (1791–1858) was an English merchant, businessperson and banker, a director of the Bank of Liverpool.[1]

Early life[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

St Peter's Church, Everton, after a drawing by John Hay

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[edit]

  1. ^ The Biograph and Review. 1880. p. 467.
  2. ^ a b "Charles Inman of Spital Old Hall, 15th Nov 1791 - 11th Nov 1858, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Burke, Bernard (1882). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. iv.
  4. ^ a b McConnell, Anita. "Inman, Thomas (1820–1876)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14426. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Ellison, Thomas (1886). The Cotton Trade of Great Britain: Including a History of the Liverpool Cotton Market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association. E. Wilson. p. 205 note.
  6. ^ The London Gazette. T. Neuman. 1831. p. 1399.
  7. ^ a b Burke, Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1462.
  8. ^ Chapman, Charles (1875). The Ocean Waves: Travels by Land and Sea. G. Berridge. p. 58.
  9. ^ a b Baxendale, T. D. "Baxendale, Joseph (1785–1872)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37164. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ^ Turnbull, Gerald L. (13 August 2019). Traffic and Transport: An Economic History of Pickfords. Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-000-62842-5.
  11. ^ Maginnis, Arthur J. (1892). The Atlantic Ferry: Its Ships, Men, and Working. Whittaker. p. 210.
  12. ^ Lords, Great Britain Parliament House of (1841). Reports from Select Committees of the House of Lords and Evidence. p. 92.
  13. ^ Secord, James A. (20 October 2003). Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. University of Chicago Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-74411-7.
  14. ^ Chandler, George (1964). Four Centuries of Banking: The Grasshopper and the Liver Bird, Liverpool and London. Vol. I. B. T. Batsford. p. 542.
  15. ^ "The Late Charles Inman Esq". Leicester Journal. 19 November 1858. p. 8.
  16. ^ Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. Church Missionary House. 1828. p. 45.
  17. ^ "Opening of the Everton Hospital". Liverpool Mail. 9 November 1872. p. 5.
  18. ^ Gorsky, Martin; Sheard, Sally (3 October 2006). Financing Medicine: The British Experience Since 1750. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-134-26877-1.
  19. ^ "Married". Leicester Chronicle. 4 October 1817. p. 4.
  20. ^ Jamieson, Alan G. "Inman, William (1825–1881)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14427. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  21. ^ "Deaths". Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser. 19 January 1871. p. 1.
  22. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. W. Pickering. 1853. p. 628.
  23. ^ "Thomas Lancaster Davies 1798–1838, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  24. ^ Matthew, H. C. G. "Swainson, Charles Anthony (1820–1887)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26815. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  25. ^ "Deaths". Leicester Guardian. 25 November 1865. p. 5.
  26. ^ "Townships: Everton, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  27. ^ "The Late Charles Inman". Liverpool Albion. 22 November 1858. p. 11.
  28. ^ "St. Peter's (New) Church, Everton". Liverpool Mail. 3 March 1849. p. 2.
  29. ^ "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.
  30. ^ "Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project - City of Liverpool". www.lan-opc.org.uk.
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