Robert Aspland

Robert Aspland (January 13, 1782 - December 30, 1845) was an English unitary minister, editor, and activist. The difference from his son Robert Brook Aspland (1805-1869). Aspland was the son of Robert Aspland and his second wife, Hannah Brook. He was born in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, on January 13, 1782. He attended Soham High School, where his relative John Aspland taught. In 1794, he was first placed in Islington, then in Highgate, and in August 1795 he was sent to Well Street in Hackney under the leadership of John Eyre, where he remained until the summer of 1797. In April 1797, Aspland was publicly baptized in a Baptist chapel in Devonshire Square and received Baptist service from the Ward Fellowship at the Bristol Academy. He was placed under the direction of Rev. Joseph Hughes (later founder of the Bible Society), and then lived in Battersea with a small Baptist community. Remaining only a few months, but long enough to explain to his mentor reasons to doubt his views on the doctrine, Aspland went home in the summer of 1798 to Wicken, becoming a popular preacher boy there, and arrived in Bristol on July 31 to find himself. Appointed by Dr. Riland, Teacher of Theology. In October 1799, he went to Marishal College, Aberdeen; but when his opinion became more and more obvious, he was expelled from membership in the chapel in Devonshire Square on October 29, 1800, and he left the university and at the same time refused his scholarship.