Grantham Killingworth

Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist.

Life

A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51).[1][2]

Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich.[1]

Works

Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against Thomas Emlyn; in favour of adult baptism, against John Taylor, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley. His publications include:[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Killingworth, Grantham". Dictionary of National Biography 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. Alexander Gordon, ‘Killingworth, Grantham (bap.1698, d. 1778)’, rev. Emma Major, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 June 2014
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Killingworth, Grantham". Dictionary of National Biography 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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