He and his wife Catherine Barmby (1816/17–1853) were influential supporters of Robert Owen in the late 1830s and early 1840s before moving into the radical Unitarian stream of Christianity in the 1840s.
He and his wife Catherine Barmby (1816/17–1853) were influential proponents of Robert Owen during the late 1830s and early 1840s, before adopting a more radical form of Unitarian Christianity in the 1840s.