Newcome Cappe

Joseph Cappe, minister of the nonconformist congregation at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, who married the daughter and coheiress of Mr. Newcome of Waddington, Lincolnshire.

[1] In politics he was a reformer and supporter of the Yorkshire Association, and in theology, while brought up in the orthodox Independent tradition, he followed Joseph Priestley and was of Unitarian views.

[1] When Theophilus Lindsey left the Church of England in 1773, he published a Farewel Address, which was attacked by William Cooper as "Erasmus" in a letter to Etherington's York Chronicle in January 1774.

The first reply to Cooper in the Chronicle was from Cappe, as "A Lover of good men", even if Lindsey and Joseph Priestley took it to be from another ally, William Turner.

[1] A Selection of Psalms for Social Worship and An Alphabetical Explication of some Terms and Phrases in Scripture, the first an anonymous publication, and the second "by a warm well-wisher to the interests of genuine christianity", were printed at York in 1786, and are known to have been compiled by Cappe.

[1] After Cappe's death, his widow Catharine collected and edited his discourses, consisting of:[1] To the first and second of these publications she prefixed her own memoirs of his life.

[1] In October 1759, Cappe married Sarah, the eldest daughter of William Turner, a merchant of Hull, East Yorkshire.

His second wife, a promoter of female education and of Unitarian principles, was Catharine Harrison, and they were married at Barwick-in-Elmet, Leeds, on 19 February 1788.