James Slade

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James Slade

1783–1860

Best known as Canon Slade, this English clergyman wrote sermons and religious works while spending decades as vicar of Bolton-le-Moors. His life joined scholarship, parish work, and the practical realities of church life in early 19th-century England.

2 Audiobooks

A Sermon preached at St. George's Church, Bolton, on Sunday, 7th January, 1838 occasioned by the death of the Rev. William Thistlewaite

A Sermon preached at St. George's Church, Bolton, on Sunday, 7th January, 1838 occasioned by the death of the Rev. William Thistlewaite

by James Slade

Plain Parochial Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors

Plain Parochial Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors

by James Slade

About the author

Born in Daventry in 1783, James Slade was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he built the strong academic grounding that shaped his later career. He went on to become a Church of England clergyman and is generally remembered as Canon Slade.

He served for many years as vicar of St Peter's Church in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, holding the post from 1817 to 1856. Alongside his parish duties, he wrote and published religious works, including sermons, and his writing reflects the voice of a pastor deeply involved in everyday church life.

Slade died in 1860. Though not a widely known literary figure today, he remains of interest as a religious writer whose books preserve the tone and concerns of Anglican preaching in his time.