page_title: Isaac Spooner
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Isaac Spooner / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving of Elmdon Hall, Warwickshire, England, from The Forest of Arden, its Towns, Villages, and Hamlets (1863) by John Hannett, p. 282.
context_page_description: Isaac Spooner was an English ironmaster, nail manufacturer and banker.
context_section_description: The son of Abraham Spooner and Anne Knight, he went into the family iron business based around a furnace at Aston, in the Birmingham area. In 1791 he founded a bank with Matthias Attwood the elder, known then as the Birmingham Bank, and in 1801 it opened a London branch, Spooner, Attwood & Holman. His views were evangelical and abolitionist.
caption: Elmdon Hall, 1863 engraving
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