'Baptists, Business and Respectability': Elisha Smith (1754-1819) and Elisha Smith Robinson (1817-1885)

Smith, Karen E. and Copson, Stephen 2023. 'Baptists, Business and Respectability': Elisha Smith (1754-1819) and Elisha Smith Robinson (1817-1885). Baptist Quarterly 54 (3) , pp. 174-190. 10.1080/0005576X.2023.2186019

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Abstract

Studies of a rising middle class in the nineteenth century have suggested that economic success was often accompanied by political influence, and a growing sense of social respectability. Tracing the business interests of one family from a grocer’s shop in the Cotswolds in the late eighteenth century to the establishment of a Bristol-based, internationally-known company in the nineteenth century, this case study suggests that the growth of denominational life offered wealthy Baptists a particular place of respectability and service.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	0005-576X
Date of Acceptance:	13 February 2023
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2023 13:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/158897

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