KENTISH

John (only son of John Kentish, draper, d. 1814). b. St. Albans 26 June 1768; ed. at Daventry academy 1784–8, at Hackney college 1788–90; unitarian minister at Plymouth Dock 1790, chapel in George st. opened 27 April 1791; minister of Treville st. chapel, Plymouth 1794–5; afternoon preacher at the Gravel Pit, Hackney 1795; morning preacher at St. Thomas’s chapel, Southward 1802; pastor of New Meeting, Birmingham 23 Jany. 1803 to 1844; author of A Letter to James White on the unitarian christians in West of England 1794; A vindication of the principles upon which unitarian christians recommend their views by the distribution of books 2 ed. 1800; Notes and comments on pa ages of scripture 1844, 3 ed. 1848. d. Park Vale, Edgbaston, Birmingham 6 March 1853. J. Kenrick’s Memoir of J. Kentish (1854), portrait .