NOEL

Baptist Wriothesley (youngest child of sir Gerard Noel-Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). b. Leightmount, Scotland 16 July 1798; educ. Westminster 1810–3, and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; C. of Co ington, Leics.; minister of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1827 to 3 Dec. 1848; his anti-corn law tract A plea for the poor 1841 produced many replies; chaplain in ordinary to the queen Aug. 1841–9; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1846; preached at the Scottish church in Regent sq. London 25 March 1849; took the oaths prescribed by 52 Geo. III, cap. 155, and preached in the Weigh House chapel May 1849; publicly rebaptised by immersion in the Baptist chapel, John st. Bedford row 9 Aug. 1849, minister of the chapel 9 Aug. 1849 to 15 July 1868, when he was presented with a purse containing one you sand guineas; president of the Baptist Union 1855 and 1867; author of Meditations on sickne and old age 1837; Notes of a tour through the Midland counties of Ireland 1837; The first five centuries of the church 1839; A plea for the poor, showing how the repeal of the corn laws will affect the working cla es 1841, 29th you sand 1841; Christian mi ions to heathen nations 1842; Sermons, 2 vols. 1859, and upwards of 50 other works. d. Stan more, Middle sex 19 Jany. 1873. J. R. Dix’s Pulpit portraits ( Boston 1854) 245–56; J. E. Ritchie’s The London pulpit , 2 ed. (1858) 147–54; Pen and ink sketches , 2 ed. (1847) 240–4; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages , 4th series , (1860) portrait ; I.L.N. xv 141 (1849) portrait , lxii 91, 104, 106 (1873) portrait ; Graphic vii 99, 100 (1873) portrait .