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Description: | One of the founders of the first Sunday School established in Bilston in 1798. The school was connected to the Wesleyan Chapel in Temple Street. According to a memoriam card he was engaged in 'humane and benevolent' objects during the 1832 and 1849 cholera epidemics. He was also instrumental in setting up an adult school, penny savings banks and clothing clubs. In the 1850 Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, Etheridge is listed as an Ironmonger. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Printed | Temporal: | [1856] | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Etheridge; John ([1772] - 1856) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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