Frederick Spurrell

Spurrell was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Chichester in 1847 and priest the following year, when he began his work as curate of Newhaven, Sussex.

While there, he was among a small party of local officials that called on Louis-Philippe I, who had fled to England following the 1848 revolutions in France.

He provided weekly services in the upper gallery of a chapel at 12 Lilla Trädgårdsgatan, which had been loaned by the Moravian Church.

Spurrell was appointed rector of Faulkbourne, Essex, in 1853, where he remained until his retirement in 1898, having been made a surrogate in the Diocese of St Albans in 1894.

Charles Henry Spurrell, was for many years as Organising Secretary of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education and later served as Rector of Meesden, Hertfordshire, from 1911 to 1923.

He was the uncle of the archaeologist and egyptologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a cousin of the Rev.