Introduction
Isaac Spooner (c.1735–1816) was an English ironmaster, nail manufacturer and banker.
Life
The son of 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, and in 1801 it opened a London branch, Spooner, Attwood & Holman. His views were evangelical and abolitionist.
Legacy
Spooner owned an estate of over 2000 acres at Elmdon, and he completed Elmdon Hall, started by his father, in 1795. The bank Attwood, Spooner & Co. failed in 1865. The Hall was demolished in 1956.
Family
Spooner married Barbara Gough, sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe. They had children including:
- Abraham, who married the daughter of Luke Lillingston of Ferriby Grange. and took the name Abraham Spooner Lillingston.
- Isaac, who married Miss Tyler of Redland in 1807.
- 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.
- Henry
- William, who became Archdeacon of Coventry.
- Richard, who was a member of parliament. He married Charlotte, daughter of Nathan Wetherell.
- John, who was a clergyman.
There were nine in all, with the unmarried Eliza; or ten. Richard is said to be the ninth child in an 1885 Life of Thomas Attwood.