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Samuel Bache (24 December 1804 – 7 January 1876) was an EnglishUnitarianminister.
He was born atBridgnorth,Shropshire, where his father, Joshua Tilt Bache (d. 28 October 1837, aged 63), was a grocer. His mother was Margaret Silvester, ofNewport in the same county. On her death, in 1808, he was entrusted to his father's sister, Mrs. Maurice, atStourbridge, and he became the pupil of Rev.Thomas Ebenezer Beasley, adissentingminister atUxbridge.[1]
He was some time assistant in the school of the Rev.Lant Carpenter, LL.D., atBristol, and was educated for the ministry (January 1826–29) atManchester College, York, underCharles Wellbeloved (theology),John Kenrick, M.A. (classics), andWilliam Turner, M.A. (science). He was minister at the Old Meeting, Dudley, 1829–32, and in 1832 became colleague ofJohn Kentish (1768–1853) at theNew Meeting, Birmingham (Joseph Priestley's congregation), and married Emily (d. 1855), second daughter of the Rev. Edward Higginson of Derby (1781–1832), whose eldest daughter, Helen (d. 1877), was the wife of the Rev. James Martineau. He had seven children, of whomFrancis Edward Bache, the composer, was the eldest; another wasWalter Bache, the musician; the youngest son, John Kentish, some time a dissenting minister, tookAnglican orders in 1876.
For many years Bache kept a school. In 1859 he took a leading part with the Rev. Dr. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, in the establishment ofHospital Sunday, an institution originated in Birmingham. He was visitor ofManchester New College, London, 1861–65. In 1862 theNew Meeting, Moor Street, was sold to Roman Catholics, the congregation removing to a handsome structure inBroad Street, called theChurch of the Messiah, Birmingham (foundation laid 11 August 1860). Mr. Bache had as colleague in 1863-7 the Rev. Henry Enfield Dowson. In 1868 he resigned the ministry from failing health, and, being afflicted with softening of the brain, he resided for the last two years of his life in the house of a physician atGloucester, where he died on 7 January 1876 aged 71.
He was a preacher and public man of strong powers, correct attainment, and cultivated taste; formal and urbane in manner. Among unitarians he represented the conservative school which aimed to carry out the principles ofLocke'sReasonableness of Christianity, regarding Jesus Christ as the miraculously attested exponent of a pure morality and a simple theology, and the revealer, by his resurrection, of an eternal life. On 23 May 1866 he proposed the embodiment in the constitution of theBritish and Foreign Unitarian Association of a 'recognition of the special divine mission and authority, as a religious teacher, of Jesus Christ,' which was met by carrying the previous question.
A list of twenty-two of his publications (1833–70) is given by J. Gordon, including:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: "Bache, Samuel".Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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