William Sharp, Sr. 

William Sharp, Sr., was a liberal-minded dissenter and was known to the Steeles of Broughton. His son, William Sharp, Jr., became ‘President of a Society devoted to public freedom, at Newport, Isle of Wight’, according to the title page of his pamphlet, An Oration Delivered on the Secular Anniversary of the Revolution (London, 1789), printed and sold by two London Baptist booksellers: Martha Gurney and Joseph Johnson. The younger Sharp was also a member of the Revolution Society of London.