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ceded the gentleman lately deceased , the heads of the family were distinguished not more by that attention to their extensive private concerns which was essential to success , than by an attention to the public interests of the place in which they resided , such as became good townsmen . They were very active members of the Town's Trust . Iu every
public undertaking originated m their time , they were foremost , and , in particular , the improvement of the River Don Navigation , a measure which has contributed so greatly to the prosperity of Sheffield , owed much at the beginning to the skill and energy of the first Mr . Samuel Shore . To assiduity , integrity , and public spirit , there was added iu
them an earnest concern for religiou . They were amongst those persons at Sheffield , ( and they were many , ) who , not willing to yield themselves to the restrictions which the Act of Uniformity imposes upon freedom of inquiry in affairs of religion and the public expression of devotional sentiment , formed
themselves into a society of Protestant Dissenters . The Chapel in which they met for worship , now called the Upper Chapel , iu Norfolk Street , was built in 1700 , and the first Mr . Samuel Shore was one of the founders aud original Trustees . The second Mr . Samuel Shore
was , through life , a member of that congregation ; and by the minister of that congregation , Mr . John Wadsworth , was the late Mr . Shore baptized on the 14 th of February , 1738 . He was born on the 5 th day of that month ; but to
fix precisely the period of his birth , it is necessary to say the year was 1737-6 . He was the second son ; but the eldest , whose name was Robert Diggles , so called after the name of his graudfather , who was a merchant at Liverpool , died in his early infancy .
At a very early age , Mr . Shore was placed for education under the care of the Rev . Daniel Lowe , a Dissenting minister then lately settled at Norton . Mr . Lowe ' s school enjoyed , during many years , a high reputation . Most of the Dissecting youth of the better
conditionin the counties of York , Nottingham , and Derby , were educated in it . Mr . Shore was his pupil for seven years , so that his earliest recollected impressions would be connected with Norton , a place with which , as we shall afterwards see , he became more closely united .
The Dissenters of England , in the early years of Mr . Shore , had made no provision for the education of their youth in the higher departments of knowledge .
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Their academies were connned to theeducation of their ministers . Those amongst them , therefore , who regarded the ancient and splendid seats of learning and science as fenced by barriers , which no Nonconformist ought to pass , were iu a manner compelled to seek , at some risque , in a foreign land , the advantages which were denied at home . When sixteen , Mr . Shore was accordingly placed in a French academy in
London , as a preparatory step to his being sent to Germany , la the summer of 1754 , he proceeded to the Continent ; aud after travelling through Holland , Westphalia , Hesse - Cassel , Hanover , Brandenburgh , Silesia , and Saxony , he returned to Brunswick , and was there entered a Student of Charles College in that city , founded by Charles , Duke of Brunswick . There Mr . Shore remained for three years ; in the course of which he made excursions to the Hartz
Mountains , to Hanover , aud Gottingen . The amiableness of his manners , the correctness of his behaviour , and the assiduity of his attention to the duties of the College , gained him universal esteem ; but the particular favour with which he was regarded by the Abbe Jerusalem , a person of considerable note at that time in Germany , who , when Rector of the College of Brunswick , assisted him in the kindest manner with
his counsels and instruction , was a subject ever after of grateful recollection . Mr . Shore left Brunswick when the French army entered the place in 1757 , and returned to England . There were those who , at this period , looked forward with an earnest and
assured expectation to that high and honourable course of thought and action of which the termination has only now been witnessed ; aud , in particular , the friends of civil and religious liberty looked to the sense and knowledge , the spirit and activity , of Mr . Shore , as marking him out as one who would take a lead in the defence of the best interests of the human race . They were not mistaken iu these anticipations .
It happened to Mr . Shore , to spend nearly the whole of his long life near the place of his birth . In the year 1759 , he married the elder of two daughters of Joseph O / iley , Esq , a gentleman of ancient family , who had resided at
Norton Hall , aud had been the l > ord of that Manor . Mr . Offley left two daughters and one son ; but the son dying iu early life , and leaving no issue , the daughters became co-heirs to considerable estates in different counties . On the partition
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Obituary . —Samuel Shore , Esq . 67
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/67/
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