Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...

Opened October, 1793 ; restored 1874.
First chapel built 1708? Burnt in Sacheverell riots, 1715.
Second chapel burnt in Priestley riots, 17 July, 1791.
MINISTERS.
" By several, especial& by - Witton."* Evans's Lists.
" Many ytars sz@jlied 6y nzinisters resi&;lzt i ~ z <strong>the</strong> ne&hbourhood, viz., Rev.
Messrs. Elcox, Blich, To;~zKs,t Tilzdal, Cle~~zents, PhiZli$s."
in earliest minute book <strong>of</strong> Monthly Meeting.
J ames Scott 'S note
David Lewis . . . ...
George Lewis, assisin~zt
John Hobson ...
John Tingcombe
Thomas Moore
Rees Lloyd . .. . , .
Thomas Evans ...
William Mountford, Ph.D.
William Bowen, M.A.
Joseph Heywood ..
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John Birks
James Taplin . . Lindsey ~a~lin, M.A. ...
Joseph Hardinge Mat<strong>the</strong>ws ...
"Richard Witton, A.M., d. 28 Deccmber, 17k5, ~ t 82. . Toulmin's Bourn, 1808, p. 283.
?John Toncks, b. at Harborne; ed. Shrewsbury, by Rev. Samuel Benion, M.D. "His
private fortune enabled him to render, in a measure, gratuitous services in his ministerial
character to small congregations in <strong>the</strong> neighbourhood <strong>of</strong> Birmingham ; particularly at
Kingswood, where he preached a number <strong>of</strong> years, receiving from <strong>the</strong> people what was
barely sufficient to keep his horse. He was a man <strong>of</strong> polite and hospitable manners,
generous and beneficent, and <strong>of</strong> liberal and Catholic principles. He died g July, 1757,
aged seventy years. His only daughter, Mrs. Scott, <strong>of</strong> Birn~inghan~ (and he had no
son), still survives."-Toulmin's Bourn, 1808, p. 280. Mrs. Ann Scott, widow <strong>of</strong> William
Scott, Esq., and only child <strong>of</strong> Rev. J. Toncks, died in Birmingham, on 8 January, 1813.
-M.R., 1813, p. 129.