Kimber, Edward (1719–1769), journal editor and writer, was the son of Isaac Kimber (1692–1755), a General Baptist minister. There is no evidence that Kimber had any formal education. However, it is likely that he gained editorial experience and training as a youth after his father took up the editorship of the ...
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Kimber, Edward (1719–1769), journal editor and writer
Jeffrey Herrle
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Overton, Richard (fl. 1640–1663), Leveller and pamphleteer
B. J. Gibbons
Overton, Richard (fl. 1640–1663), Leveller and pamphleteer, is of uncertain background and origins.
There are two conflicting accounts of Overton's early life, both largely conjectural. In Amsterdam there exists a signed Latin confession of faith made by Overton on his conversion to General Baptism, and it was once generally assumed that this was made at the same time as other General Baptist confessions in the same archive, about 1615. If so, this would give him a probable date of birth some time before 1600. The relatively greater emphasis than other Levellers in his writings on such rural grievances as enclosure may indicate that he had rural origins, possibly in ...
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Smith, Francis (d. 1691), bookseller and General Baptist minister
Beth Lynch
Smith, Francis (d. 1691), bookseller and General Baptist minister, was the son of Francis Smith, a Yorkshire farrier from Bradford. No further information has as yet been discovered about his family background or his birth details. On 3 May 1647 he was apprenticed to ...
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Sturgion, John (d. 1665), General Baptist preacher and pamphleteer
Richard L. Greaves
Sturgion, John (d. 1665), General Baptist preacher and pamphleteer, was a member of the General Baptist church of Edmund Chillenden that in June 1653 received permission to meet in the Stone Chapel of St Paul's Cathedral. Gilbert Mabbott's newsletter of 1 September 1655 described ...
