where he was succeeded in 1804 by the Rev. Daniel White. He died in 1812. William and Mary Field had a numerous family. Of the sons: Edwin Wilkins Field, the eldest, married Mary Sharpe, sister of the geologist Daniel and the banker and Egyptologist Samuel and niece of Samuel Rogers the man of letters. Horace Wilkins was an architect. Alfred Field (1814–1884) was a founder of the hardware company that became Alfred Field & Co. of Sheffield. It was set up in Birmingham with his elder brother Frederick Emans Field (1810–1885). By 1829 Ferdinand was in New York, where he became a good friend and hiking companion of the poet William Cullen Bryant, whom he saw on later visits Bryant made to England. In 1836 the hardware company was founded, and it began to trade from a New York office in 1840, as Field, Parker & Field. Ferdinand was back in England in May 1840. When Bryant was in England in the summer of 1845, he visited the Fields in Warwick and Birmingham. He thought Mary Field "a very remarkable woman". Publications Field's major works were his history of Warwick and his life of Samuel Parr. He published many pamphlets and sermons: they included "Letter to the Inhabitants of Warwick," &c., 1791, "Letter to the Inhabitants … of Kenilworth," &c., 1848. Other publications were: A Series of Questions … as a Guide to the Critical Study of the Four Gospels, &c., 1794; second edition, printed 1805; recommended in the Critical Review (June 1794) to theological students. Copies were issued from time to time for private use (with various title-pages), but it was not published till 1846, with large introduction An Historical and Descriptive Account of … Warwick and … Leamington, &c., Warwick, 1815, (anon., "advertisement" signed W. F.; plates). Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., 1828, 2 vols. Field was a frequent contributor of critical and other articles to the Monthly Repository and Christian Reformer. References Attribution 1768 births 1851 deaths Schoolteachers from London People from Stoke Newington People from Warwick 18th-century English writers 18th-century English male writers 19th-century English writers 18th-century English educators 19th-century English educators Deaf religious workers English Unitarian ministers English Presbyterian ministers English deaf people