Thank you — that's a generous bit of work.

Mountjoy was baptized at Drybrook in October 1824, and my Samuel Horobin was baptized in the same register volume, a few years and a few dozen pages apart in the same book.

My uncle quoted him in 1980 without, I think, knowing anything about him. Interesting!

One thought your post set off. I see from the Victoria County History that Mountjoy formed the East Dean Economic Benefit Society at the Baptist chapel in 1854, and that it promoted temperance, and that several Forest friendly societies met at chapels rather than public houses. That sits far more comfortably with my Samuel than a Masonic lodge does — he married at Parkend, and his children were baptized and both his wives buried at Coleford Congregational. A chapel benefit society badge would make sense of the star and the plain ribbon.

Do you know whether the records of those Forest societies survive anywhere, or what their regalia looked like?