Evangelical clergyman, born in London on 26 December 1748. During his years as a pupil at Christ's Hospital his passion for the histrionic was transmuted into religious seriousness. At Pembroke College, Cambridge he joined a religious group similiar to Oxford's 'Holy Club' and formed a friendship with Rowland Hill. Ordained in 1771, he became a curate at Horley, Surrey; then, in 1774, accepted the poorly endowed living at Wallingford, with the encouragement and support of the Countess of Huntingdon. His evangelical ministry there survived local hostility and complaints to the bishop and bore fruit in a local revival in 1783, despite divisions over doctrinal issues. He also preached in a number of Lady Huntingdon's chapels, though she built one of them in his own parish. From 1774 to 1775 he was editor of the Gospel Magazine. On a visit to Wallingford in October 1787 John Wesley had a meeting with him and recorded that 'Calvinism and bitterness are fled away together, and we willingly gave each other the right hand of fellowship.' One of the pupils at the school he started was Thomas Marriott (1786-1852). He died on 11 February 1808.