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Among his numerous good qualities , a hospitable temper was not the least engaging . Nothing could be more friendly and cordial than his reception of those visitors at Swansea , who were either previously known by him or recommended to his attentions .
A sister of this individual was the first wife of Mr . Phipson , surgeon , who resided for many years in London ; himself a senior member of a family long and honourably associated with Protestant Dissenting congregations in the town of Birmingham . This lady died March 29 , 1
787-Mr . Fletcher , a respectable manufacturer of that place , married another sister . He was father , by a former marriage , of the Rev . J . Fletcher , * who having been educated first at Daventry , and , after some interval , at Hackney , was suddenly removed from
the world , bv an aoonlectic seizure , in the world , by an apoplectic seizure , in the midst of high promise and expectations . Let a companion of the studies of this young minister be permitted to speak of his excellent talents , principles and feelings , and of his distinguished industry and ardour . His
memory was uncommonly retentive ; making approaches to that of Dr . Furneaux . -f- He could recollect with admirable exactness , not merely the substance , but the arrangement and
the language of any long discourse or speech , to which his attention had been particularly given . The death of Mr . John Fletcher took place June 279 1794 ; that of his mother-in-law , ( ooce Miss Sarah Howell , ) Jan . 28 ,
1804 . Her sister , Mary Howell , was the former wife of Mr . Joseph Rogers ^ the second son of a very estimable family in Birmingham , in the mailttfac- * tures and trade of which he" tvae long engaged , together with some of his
relations . His apprenticeship had b ^ eh serv ed at KJet tering , in Northamptonshire , where he was accustomed to join in religious worship with the Independent congregation : hence , probably , he gained an attachment to the creed and discipline of that denomination of Nonconformists , He was
• Man . Hepos . XVII . 286 . t Letters to tilackstone , Pref . to 2 nd cd . vi . vii .
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a leading and exemplary member of the Society Meeting in Carr ' s Lane , Birmingham ; zealous for what he deemed the purity of Christian faith , but equally zealous for the maintenance of practical religion . At the age of 70 , and on July 20 , 1811 , he paid the debt of nature .
Mr . Samuel Rogers , his younger brother , also married a daughter of Mr . Howell , of Winson Green . Thus the two families were cemented to each other still more closely . It is not easy to represent in adequate language the hospitality and affection which marked the characters of Mr .
and Mrs . Samuel Rogers . In the happiness of their numerous relatives and friends , they uniformly took the warmest interest . Their house , the abode of piety and order , was frequently visited by Dissenting ministers of their own connexion , and of t > ther
denominations in Birmingham , the vicinity , and from a distance . Like the late William Hunt , Esq ., * of the Brades > Mr . S . Rogers experienced more than usual pleasure in the c 6 i&pany of such guests ; and like that highly valuable man , he was ^ the Gaaus-f * of his neighbourhood / ' Throughout the midland and eastern districts of the
kingdom he was well known and much esteemed , as the punctual and upright tradesman . He expired June 25 , 1320 , within six months after the death of his consort , J and little more than a month before that of his
sister . § Mrs . Mary Rogers , to whose decease a reference has just been made , maintained , . through a life extended rather beyond the usual limit , a most consistent and well-proportioned , a most truly respectable and engaging
character . A sound judgment , a cor- * rect taste , the purest affections and principles , aided by long experience , and adorned by perfect kindness of temper and propriety of riianners , enabled her not only $ 6 be irreproachable and exemplary ill her personal deportment , but to become the wise and faithful adviser of those around her ; some whom , now filling with
ho-* Mon . Rtpos . IV . 53 . t Rom . xvi . 23 . j Jan . 4 , 1820 ^ Jaly 31 , 182 & .
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744 Obituary Notice * of the Families of Howell attd Rogers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1822, page 744, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2519/page/24/
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