Lant Carpenter
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2 September 1780 Kidderminster, England |
| Died | 5 April 1840 (aged 59) at sea, en route to Marseille |
| Residence | London, England |
| Years active | 1799–1840 |
| Known for | Educator and Unitarian minister |
| Parent(s) | George Carpenter, Mary Hooke |
| Relatives |
Mary Carpenter (daughter) William Benjamin Carpenter (son) Russell Lant Carpenter (son) Philip Pearsall Carpenter (son) |
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Lant Carpenter, Dr. (2 September 1780 – 5 or 6 April 1840) was an English educator and Unitarian minister.
Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster, the third son of George Carpenter and his wife Mary (Hooke). He was christened on 2 September 1780 in Kidderminster. His parents separated after his father's business failed, and Nicholas Pearsall, his mother's guardian and a Unitarian, saw to his education. For two years from age 13 he was at Stourbridge, taught by his uncle the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter, then returning to Kidderminster where he was at a school founded by Pearsall, and was taught by William Blake. After some months at Northampton Academy under John Horsey, Carpenter transferred to the University of Glasgow and then joined the ministry. After a short time as assistant master at a Unitarian school near Birmingham, in 1802 he was appointed librarian at the Liverpool Athenaeum.
In 1805 Carpenter became pastor of a chapel in Exeter. He moved to Bristol in 1817, to take up a post as minister at the Unitarian chapel in Lewin's Mead. At both Bristol and Exeter he was also engaged in school work, among his Bristol pupils being Harriet and James Martineau, Samuel Greg, and the Westminster Review's John Bowring.
Lant Carpenter did much to broaden the spirit of English Unitarianism. He believed in the essential lawfulness of the creation. This meant that natural causes were the explanation of the world as we find it. The rite of baptism seemed to him a superstition and he substituted for it a form of infant dedication.
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