Frederick Spurrell

The Reverend Frederick Spurrell was the second son, and seventh of eight children, of Charles Spurrell and Hannah Shears (daughter of James Shears, of James Shears and Sons). He was descended from the Spurrell family of Thurgarton, Norfolk.

He was born on 2 August 1824 at 23, Park Street, Southwark. At the time, his father worked for Barclay and Perkins Ltd., who then owned the Anchor Brewery, Southwark; later the family moved to Anchor Terrace, Southwark Bridge Road, when it was built in the mid-1830s.

After completing his studies at King's College London where he became an Associate of King's College (A.K.C.), he went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, obtaining a B.A. in 1847 (M.A. 1850). He was ordained deacon in 1847 by the Bishop of Chichester and priest the following year, when began his work as Curate of Newhaven, Sussex. In 1848 he was among a small party that called on Louis-Philippe of France at Newhaven after the latter had escaped the 1848 revolutions in France.

In 1849 he was the first person to be appointed Chaplain to the British Residents at , Sweden. On his return to England, he served as Curate of Barcombe, Sussex, from 1850 to 1853.

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