# Frederick Spurrell > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Frederick_Spurrell > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Frederick_Spurrell.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Spurrell > Source revision: 1306566996 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Frederick Spurrell''' (2 August 1824 – 23 February 1902) was an [Anglican](/source/Anglicanism) priest and archaeologist. ==Early life and education== Frederick Spurrell was born at 23, Park Street in [Southwark](/source/Southwark) at a time when his father, Charles Spurrell (1783–1866), was employed by Barclay, Perkins & Co. as a senior manager at the nearby [Anchor Brewery](/source/Anchor_Brewery). His mother, Hannah Shears (1790–1882), was the daughter of the London copper merchant [James Shears](/source/James_Shears_and_Sons). In the 1830s the family moved to [Anchor Terrace](/source/Anchor_Terrace) on [Southwark Bridge Road](/source/Southwark_Bridge_Road).J. C. Spurrell, ''The life of Charles Spurrell and his family's links to the Watney and Gray brewing families'', Brewery History No. 138 (December 2010). He studied at [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London) and was awarded an [Associateship (A.K.C.)](/source/Associateship_of_King's_College), before going up to [Corpus Christi College, Cambridge](/source/Corpus_Christi_College%2C_Cambridge), where he obtained a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in 1847 (promoted to [M.A.](/source/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford%2C_Cambridge%2C_and_Dublin)) in 1850).{{acad|id=SPRL843F|name=Spurrell, Frederick}} At university he was a member of both the [Cambridge Camden Society](/source/Cambridge_Camden_Society) and the [Cambridge Architectural Society](/source/Cambridge_Architectural_Society). ==Career and interests== [[File:St Germans, Faulkbourne, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 335585.jpg|thumb|[St Germanus' Church, Faulkbourne](/source/St_Germanus'_Church%2C_Faulkbourne), where Spurrell was rector from 1853 to 1898.]] Spurrell was ordained [deacon](/source/deacon) by the [Bishop of Chichester](/source/Bishop_of_Chichester) in 1847 and [priest](/source/priest) the following year, when he began his work as curate of [Newhaven](/source/Newhaven%2C_East_Sussex), [Sussex](/source/Sussex). While there, he was among a small party of local officials that called on [Louis-Philippe I](/source/Louis-Philippe_I), who had fled to England following the [1848 revolutions](/source/Revolutions_of_1848_in_France) in [France](/source/France). In 1849 Spurrell travelled through [Belgium](/source/Belgium), [Prussia](/source/Prussia) and [Denmark](/source/Denmark) to [Sweden](/source/Sweden), having been sent by the [Bishop of London](/source/Bishop_of_London), the Rt. Rev. [Charles James Blomfield](/source/Charles_James_Blomfield) to serve as the [Anglican chaplain in Stockholm](/source/St_Peter_and_St_Sigfrid's_Church). He provided weekly services in the upper gallery of a chapel at 12 Lilla Trädgårdsgatan, which had been loaned by the [Moravian Church](/source/Moravian_Church).J. C. Spurrell, ''Frederick Spurrell's letter from Stockholm, 1849'', The Anglo-Swedish Society newsletter (2015). Following his return to England, he served as curate of [Barcombe](/source/Barcombe), Sussex, from 1850 to 1853. Spurrell was appointed rector of [Faulkbourne](/source/Faulkbourne), [Essex](/source/Essex), in 1853, where he remained until his retirement in 1898, having been made a [surrogate](/source/Surrogate_(clergy)) in the [Diocese of St Albans](/source/Diocese_of_St_Albans) in 1894. In 1886 he commissioned [Arthur Blomfield](/source/Arthur_Blomfield) to restore the parish church. Spurrell was a keen amateur archaeologist who published a number of papers. He was a member of the [Essex Archaeological Society](/source/Essex_Society_for_Archaeology_and_History) and the [Sussex Archaeological Society](/source/Sussex_Archaeological_Society), and also served on the Council of the [Royal Archaeological Society](/source/Royal_Archaeological_Society) alongside prominent Victorian archaeologists such as [Augustus Pitt Rivers](/source/Augustus_Pitt_Rivers) and [Flinders Petrie](/source/Flinders_Petrie).J. C. Spurrell, ''Frederick Spurrell, An Essex Antiquarian'', Essex Society for Archaeology and History newsletter (2015). He died in [Bath](/source/Bath%2C_Somerset) in 1902 and was buried in the churchyard of [St Germanus' Church, Faulkbourne](/source/St_Germanus'_Church%2C_Faulkbourne). ==Family== Spurrell [married his cousin](/source/Cousin_marriage), Frances Gray (1827–1892), at Newhaven on 16 February 1854. Frances's father, John Gray (1790–1826), had founded the [Gray and Dacre Brewery](/source/Gray_and_Dacre_Brewery) in [West Ham](/source/West_Ham), [Essex](/source/Essex), and her mother, Lydia Shears (1794–1855), was the youngest daughter of the copper merchant James Shears. They had two sons (one stillborn) and three daughters. Their surviving son, the Rev. Charles Henry Spurrell, was for many years as Organising Secretary of the [National Society for Promoting Religious Education](/source/National_Society_for_Promoting_Religious_Education) and later served as Rector of [Meesden](/source/Meesden), [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), from 1911 to 1923. Frederick Spurrell was descended from the [Spurrell family](/source/Spurrell) of [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk). He was the uncle of the archaeologist and egyptologist [Flaxman Charles John Spurrell](/source/Flaxman_Charles_John_Spurrell) and a cousin of the Rev. [Augustus Shears](/source/Augustus_Shears) and the Rev. [Ernest Henry Shears](/source/Ernest_Henry_Shears). ==Publications== {{scholia|author}} The following is a list of some of Frederick Spurrell's published works: *''On the Architecture of Fletching Church'', Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. IV (1851) *''Roman Remains Discovered at Newhaven in 1852'', Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. V (1852) *''Architectural Relics of Lewes Priory'', Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. VI (1853) *''Inventory of the Goods of Cornelius Humphrey, of Newhaven, 1697'', Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. VI (1853) *''Examples of Mediaeval Seals. Seals Preserved at Wisby in Gottland'', Archaeological Journal, Vol. VII (1855) *''Notice of a Wooden Effigy of a Priest in the Church at Little Leighs'', Essex Archaeological Society Transperiodical (1867) *''Faulkbourn Church'', Essex Archaeological Society Transperiodical (1878) *''Notes on the Death of King John'', Archaeological Journal (1881) ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Spurrell, Frederick}} Category:1824 births Category:1902 deaths Category:English archaeologists Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Category:Alumni of King's College London Category:Associates of King's College London Category:19th-century English Anglican priests Category:Clergy from Southwark --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Frederick Spurrell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Spurrell) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Spurrell?action=history)). 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