John Lavington, Jr.

John Lavington, Jr. (d. 1764)  was the son of John Lavington, Sr. (see entry below).  The younger Lavington began his ministry as an Independent minister at Broadway in Worcestershire in 1739. In 1748 he removed to Bridport, Dorset, and in 1751 to Ottery St. Mary, Devon, where he remained until his death in 1764. He also served as a tutor at the Ottery St. Mary Academy from 1752 onwards. As "Lysander," Lavington was a close friend and literary collaborator (along with Philip Furneaux of London and William Steele IV) with Anne Steele of Broughton in the 1740s and 1750s prior to the publication of her Poems by Theodosia in 1760.  Some of those poetic efforts were preserved in the Steele Collection, now residing at the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford, and were published for the first time in Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin.