Edward Randall

Edward Randall (1765-1840) was the youngest son of John Randall (1715-99), Cambridge University music professor and organist at Great St. Mary’s Church. The elder Randall had been a friend of Robert Robinson during the latter’s tenure at St. Andrew’s Street.  Edward Randall was a well-known local solicitor and author of two publications-Judicial essays: being remarks on the laws of England (1793) and Freedom of election, the law of the land (1802), the latter printed and sold by Flower.  Randall’s mother, Grace, was a member of St. Andrew’s Street from 1773 until her death in 1792. His first wife, Ann (d. 1797) was admitted to the church in 1791.  He remarried in 1798, this time to Miss Mary Menoch of Walworth, who joined the church in St. Andrew’s Street in 1812; she died in 1827. Randall was an active supporter of the Baptist Mission in the East Indies after 1810, serving as the treasurer of the local auxiliary. For some time after his mother’s death in 1792, Edward lived with his father at Kenmare House, Trumpington Street.  See Church Book: St. Andrew’s Street Baptist Church, Cambridge 1720-1832 (London: Baptist Historical Society, 1991), 138, and 158; Cambridge Intelligencer, 11 March 1797, 27 January 1798, 3 November 1798, 19 January 1799, and 29 May 1802.