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an English Baptist minister, the son and grandson of ministers, was born in Liver, pool, October 7, 1807. He was baptized at the age of nineteen; entered Horton College in 1827; became pastor at Church-street, Blackfriars; resigned in 1841, and removed to Manchester, where he was pastor of Yorkstreet chapel only eighteen months; then settled at Arnesby, Leicestershire, in 1843; removed to Kent-street chapel, Portsea, in 1854; and to Romford in 1866, where he was stricken with paralysis in 1879, and died October 23, 1881. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1882, page 301. Gloucester County, Virginia, April 13, 1809; was converted in his fourteenth year; educated in the academies of Gloucester and Northumberland, and in 1836 entered the Virginia Conference, in which he labored till his death, May 8, 1879. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1879, page 105.