WM minister, born on 24 October 1792 at Ely into a Fenland family dating back to 1639. He and his brother Robert were both baptized in the Lady Chapel of Ely cathedral, where his parents had been married. The family moved to London in 1802; he became a WM local preacher in 1813 and entered the ministry two years later. He travelled 54 years in England and Scotland, including a period in the Shetland Isles. He is recorded as asserting: 'I have been an avowed enemy to drink, tobacco, snuff and fashion more than seventy years.' He retired in 1869 and died on 22 December 1878.
His son John Wesley Tabraham was in business in Hackney and was a local preacher. A grandson Charles Lovering Tabraham (1853-1929) entered the ministry in 1879 and died at St. Leonards-on-Sea on 22 November 1929.