KNILL

Richard (4 child of Richard Knill, carpenter, d. 1826). b. Braunton near Barn staple 14 April 1787; congregational mi ionary in Madras 1816–19 and at St. Petersburg 1820–33; travelled in United Kingdom advocating claims of the foreign mi ions 1833–41; minister at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs. 1 Jany. 1842 to 1848, at Chester 1848 to death; author of The farmer and his family 1814; some account of John Knill 1830; The happy death-bed 1833; Memoirs of female labourers in the mi ionary cause 1839; A Scotch man abroad 1841. d. 28 Queen st. Chester 2 Jany. 1857. Birrell’s Life of R. Knill (1878), portrait ; Wadding ton’s Congregational history , v 185–96 (1880).