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Letter, 28 November 1877
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Russell Lant Carpenter was born on December 17, 1816, in Exeter, Devon, England.
He was a Unitarian minister who carried on the works of his father, Dr. Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), an English educator and Unitarian minister. He was a brother of the social reformer Mary Carpenter (1807-1877). In 1842, he published his father's biography "Memoirs of the Life of Rev. Lant Carpenter, LL.D.".
In 1853, he married Mary Browne (1823–1898). He died of pneumonia on January 15, 1892, in Bridport, Dorset, England.
Letter from Russell L. Carpenter to John William Dawson, written from Bridport, Dorset, England.