Charles Inman (banker)

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

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

Early life

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

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

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
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
  1. The Biograph and Review. 1880. p. 467.
  2. "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. 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. 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. 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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