John Cawood

CAWOOD, John. b. Matlock, Derbyshire, 18 March 1775; d. Bewdley, Worcestershire, 7 November 1852. Born into a poor family, he studied locally and gained entrance to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He took Holy Orders, and became curate of Ribbesford, and then of Dowles, Worcestershire, two villages close to the town of Bewdley. He became perpetual curate of Bewdley before 1821 (he was described as ‘PC’ on the title page of The Christian Watchman, a funeral sermon preached at Cradley Chapel on the death of the Revd Thomas Best). He published an essay in the British Review (No. 48), entitled ‘The Church of England and Dissent’, which was revised and enlarged before being published separately, ‘by...