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William Mountford
William Mountford (31 May 1816 – 20 April 1885) was an English Unitarian preacher and author.
He was born in Kidderminster, England. After his mother's death, he was adopted by her sister, Miss Follows, who lived with her aged father. Mountford always spoke of her with affectionate respect: she was a great reader, and did what she could to teach the children of the poor.
==Childhood and education==
He was a delicate child; and the limp, which was one of his peculiarities, was the result of early weakness. Once he was nearly drowned in the River Stour, from which he was dragged out senseless. He went to Pearsall's Grammar School; and "his intelligence and his quiet studious habits soon won for him the esteem of the schoolmaster, the Rev. Evan Jones", who left him his library. He there became known to the Rev. J. Kentish, of Birmingham, who encouraged him to prepare for entrance at York College. While attending the school of the Rev. E. Bristow at Birmingham, he boarded with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Carpenter, who being without children of their own, were glad to have such an inmate. He wrote that one of his hosts "had much to do with my tone of thinking and independence. I venerate his memory, and love it. It was an unbroken time of happiness that I passed at King Alfred's Place." During his vacation, he paid a week's visit to Mr. Kentish, who helped him in the purchase of books. Mountford entered Manchester College in York in 1813, then aged about seventeen.
In many of his letters, he expressed his thankfulness for his training among the English Presbyterians, and the accurate scholarship of his learned tutors: "If Mr. Wellbeloved did not show us all truth, he gave us that honesty and freedom of thought which are the master-keys of all knowledge, sooner or later." In his earlier sessions, though he was a painstaking student, he gave no promise of eminence. Towards the end of his course, he seemed kindled with fresh thoughts. While in York, Mountford came under the influence of James Martineau, and renounced the philosophy of Hartley and Mill. He astonished the little congregation supplied by the students with a vehemence and fervor they little anticipated, for he was very short in stature, and boyish in appearance.
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