Nonconformist minister, born at Swaffham on 27 September 1735. While serving an apprenticeship in London he heard George Whitefield preach and experienced a conversion on 10 December 1755. Returning to Norfolk in 1758, he began preaching among the Methodists in Mildenhall, and also at the Norwich Tabernacle. Shortly after this he left the Methodists to gather an independent congregation in Norwich, then became a Baptist pastor. His hymn 'Come, Thou fount of every blessing' is no. 517 in <span class="font-italic">Hymns & Psalms (HF 494). He died at Showell Green, Warwicks, on 9 June 1790.