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death and various concurring circumstances . i € Amongst others /' says the accurate historian of Ti--verton , C 4 occasional conformity at first to the Test and Corporation Acts , to qualify them to become members of the corporation , was a means of drawing many respectable families awa 3 fr ° that meeting to a constant attendance on the service of the Church of England / ' * In the year just mentioned , he received an invitation to fill the department of the domestic classical tutor in the newlyraised academy at Hackney . The
proposal was honourable to his talents and learning , and it offered at a time when from a distressing state of his finances , it was . peculiarly seasonable and consolatory * An elder son , on whose success in a mercantile concern
he rested his hopes for the other branches of his family , had met with misfortunes , in which his father ' s small fortune was lost .
Such respect had Mr . Riddel ' s character secured , such cordial friendship had his virtues concilia ated 3 such a generous sympathy did his affliction create , a ,
subscription was immediately opened in the town , for the relief of his present necessities , and to form a fund for his own and his family ' s future benefit . It met with
cheerful encouragement , and liberal aids to it carfre from th © remoter neighbourhood and distant quarters . But the result of this kind service did not set him above the
advantages that a new situation promised ; and the growing incapacities of declining years made it desirable tu exchange the laborious task of a grammar school , which
* DuntfordY Historical Memoirs of Tiverton , p . 369 , note 259 * t * bid
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he had for many years conducted with great reputation , for the more liberal employment of assisting the progress of young gentlemen , whose powers were already open , ed , in reading the higher classics . Kiddel continued in vir
Mr . this em . i . luaaei continued in this em . ploy men t till the seminary was broken up . The curators of it , attentive to the situation into which he would be cast , ms * . de a provision to compensate to him the want of the salary , which had
been connected with his employment . After this , Mr . Kiddel resided some time at Bath , and since in London . He died at Hackney , on the 4 th of April , 1810 , after he had , by a gradual decay of strength and faculties , for several years been tending to a dissolution .
A friend , who knew how t ( y appreciate his talents and worth , and who esteemed him highly , said of Mr . Kiddel twenty years age , c < Few men have lived in Tiverton
that have been more assiduous in their researches after knowledge , more diligentand impartial in their inquiries after trutn , or more studious to dispel the clouds of ignorance and superstition , the mists of prejudice , and the undue
influence of human authority in matters of religion : few men have been more earnest to enlighten the minds of his hearers , to exhibit the plain , genuine principles , and to enforce the divine precepts , of the gospe ) , or to exemplify the Christian character : and few men
have lived in Tiverton whose conversation hath been more instructive or entertaining , and whose company has been more pleasing or generally sought , "f When an attempt was made , in 1753 , at the assembly of ministers far the united counties of Devon
and Cornwall , to revive the inquisitorial powers , which had thirty years before marked the proceed-
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274 Memoir of the Rev . John Kiddel .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/2/
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