Isaac Spooner

Spooner was born to Abraham Spooner and Anne Knight, he went into the family iron business based around a furnace at Aston, in the Birmingham area. In 1791 he founded a bank with Matthias Attwood the elder, known then as the Birmingham Bank, which became the largest private bank in Birmingham with a clientele mostly consisting of farmers and manufacturers. In 1801, Birmingham Bank opened a London branch called Spooner, Attwood & Holman.'Parishes: Elmdon', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 67–69 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp67-69 [accessed 17 June 2015].{{cite book|author=John Pollock|title=Wilberforce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4MdlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT137|date=20 December 2013|publisher=David C. Cook|isbn=978-0-7814-1109-7|page=137}} The bank Attwood, Spooner & Co. failed in 1865.{{cite book|title=The Annual Register|url=https://archive.org/details/annualregister42unkngoog|year=1866|publisher=Rivingtons|page=[https://archive.org/details/annualregister42unkngoog/page/n401 28]}}

Spooner's views were evangelical and abolitionist.{{cite book|author=David Newsome|title=The Parting of Friends: The Wilberforces and Henry Manning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WTT34mhMtC8C&pg=PA26|year=1966|publisher=Gracewing Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-3714-1|page=26}} He owned an estate of over 2000 acres at Elmdon, West Midlands, where he completed Elmdon Hall, a development begun by his father Abraham in 1795, and which stood until its demolition in 1956. Elmdon Park remains in its place.{{cite book|author=Edmund Richardson|title=Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ElcgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|date=7 February 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-62010-9|page=197}}

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Spooner married Barbara Gough, daughter of Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe and granddaughter of the MP Reynolds Calthorpe.{{cite ODNB|id=29386|title=Wilberforce, William|first=John|last=Wolffe}} They had children including:

• Abraham, who married the daughter of Luke Lillingston (great-nephew and heir of General Luke Lillingston) of Ferriby Grange, and took the name Abraham Spooner Lillingston.{{cite book|title=The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rGo9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA60|year=1807|publisher=J. Dodsley|page=60}}
• Isaac, who married Miss Tyler of Redland in 1807.{{acad|id=SPNR791I|name=Spooner, Isaac}}{{cite book|author=John Aikin|title=The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xd8RAAAAYAAJ|year=1807|publisher=Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xd8RAAAAYAAJ/page/n315 306]}}
• Barbara Ann, who married William Wilberforce.
• Anne, who married Edward Vansittart, son of George Vansittart and Vicar of Taplow, as his second wife, and was mother of Edward Vansittart Neale.{{cite ODNB|id=19820|title=Neale, Edward Vansittart|first=Matthew|last=Lee}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Kl764Ko_WwC&pg=PA311|year=1809|publisher=R. Phillips|page=311}}{{cite DNB|wstitle=Neale, Edward Vansittart|volume=40}}
• Henry, who attended Rugby School.{{cite book|title=Rugby School Register. From 1675 to 1867 inclusive. With alphabetical index. Edited by F. Temple, Bishop of Exeter.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUBcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA39|year=1867|page=39}}
• William, who became Archdeacon of Coventry.{{cite book|author=Rugby School|title=Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sq9DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA42|year=1867|publisher=Billington|page=42}}{{cite book|author=Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)|title=Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lfVfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA465|year=1857|publisher=Edward Cave|page=465}}
• Richard, who was a member of parliament. He married Charlotte, daughter of Nathan Wetherell.
• John, who was a clergyman.{{acad|id=SPNR805J|name=Spooner, John}}

There were nine in all, with the unmarried Eliza;{{cite book|author=John Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalheral01burk|year=1836|publisher=Colburn|page=[https://archive.org/details/genealogicalheral01burk/page/185 185]}} or ten. Richard is said to be the ninth child in an 1885 Life of Thomas Attwood.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofthomasattw00wakeuoft#page/14/mode/2up|title=Life of Thomas Attwood|last=Wakefield|first=C. M.|year=1885|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Harrison|page=15|accessdate=17 June 2015|location=London}}

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• [http://landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/116-alston-of-elmdon-hall.html landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk, Alston of Elmdon Hall]

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