Evangelical clergyman, born on 22 November 1693 at Twyford, Leics. He was educated at Oakham School and Clare College, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1714. He was ordained deacon in 1716 and may have been rector of Cold Overton, Leics. in the 1720s. Between 1731 and 1755 he published a number of evangelical tracts, and in 1739 answered Joseph Trapp's attacks on George Whitefield and early Methodism. But so far as is known he did not separate from the established church and from then on both preached and lectured at Loriner's Hall in the City of London. He was also associated with Whitefield and the building of his Moorfields Tabernacle in 1741. He wrote a number of hymns and published a volume of Hymns for Christian Worship in 1742. In 1753 he was preaching at a chapel in Bull and Mouth Street, off St. Martin's-le-Grand. His later years remain undocumented.