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an English Baptist minister, was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, January 21, 1802. At fifteen he resided in London, at twenty returned home and joined the Baptist Church. He was accepted as a general Baptist missionary, and sailed for Calcutta in 1824, thence to Cuttack, Orissa, India, where he labored till his health failed in 1832, and then returned to England. He returned to Cuttack in 1837, and labored till 1847, when he had again to seek rest in England, and became pastor at Leicester. In 1850 he returned again to India by way of America. He reached his station in India only to die, August 17, 1851.