Author: English, Thomas
Biography:
ENGLISH, Thomas (1751-1809: Hollis)
A non-conformist clergyman strongly identified with Wooburn, where he preached for over 30 years. Born in Oxford to parents who are described as having been "above want, but wholly dependent on business," he attended the Countess of Huntingdon's College at Trevecca and was ordained in 1775. In the same year he married his first wife, Susannah Evans of Oxford (d 1778); only one of their three children survived infancy. After preaching in Gosport for three years, he succeeded Thomas Grove in 1778 as leader of an Independent (later Congregationalist) Church in Wooburn. He also ran a school in the village for some years. His second marriage, to Mary Sneath (d 1794), produced five children, only two of whom survived. By his third wife, Catherine English, he had at least one son, who is named specifically in his Will. English was buried in the Bethel Chapel burial ground in Wooburn. (John Griffin, Memoirs of the Rev. Thomas English [1812]; "Memoir of Mrs. Mary English," Evangelical Magazine [May 1795] 173-80; ancestry.com 18 Nov. 2018) HJ
Other Names:
- T. English