Watch List notes:

Religion: William Huntington (1745-1813), the Providence Chapel, London, cast silver medal, 1810, worked in high relief, unsigned, bust l., in clerical coat, REV. W. HUNTINGTON. S.S. – CHAPEL GRAYS INN LANE, rev. façade of the Chapel, PROVIDENCE CHAPEL – NOV. 21. 1810, 49mm. (BHM.693A – this piece illustrated), London hallmark, maker IL, this probably John Lias of 8 Finsbury Street, Chiswell Street, the backgrounds stippled, the lettering smoothed, extremely fine and exceptionally rare
*ex O'Byrne Collection
William Huntington was an unconventional minister who preached Antinomianistic views and that the 'moral law' was unnecessary. An obituary stated, 'William Huntington S.S., alias Hunt, a man whose name will be remembered while his truly humorous literary productions in prose and verse such as 'The Bank of Faith', 'The Kingdom of Heaven taken by Storm' &c. &c. shall continue to enrich the liberties of the curious, and excite the unqualified admiration of his devotees'. The New Providence Chapel, Gray's Inn Lane was later sold by order of the Court and became first an Episcopal Chapel and then, eventually, St Bartholomew's Church. It was almost entirely destroyed by bombing on 17th October, 1940.
For further details of the Lias business see John Culme's Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, 1838-1914, vol. I, pp. 295-296
(250-350 GBP)