MEANS

Joseph Calrow (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood lane, London). b. 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; bapt. by immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828; preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently to Coles st. South wark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary to general baptist a embly 1831, one of their me engers 1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister of general baptist congregation at Chas am, Kent 1843; head master of Chas am proprietary school; minister at Worship st. London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography. d. London 6 Feb. 1879. Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 78 et seq. ; Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 98 et seq.