Joseph Baynes

Joseph Baynes (1795-1875) first came under the influence of Thomas Spencer, Independent minister in Liverpool, when he was fourteen; at sixteen, however, he was baptized and joined the Baptist church in Lime Street, Liverpool, led by James Lister. In 1815 Baynes entered Bristol Academy and later studied at Glasgow. In 1818 he became William Winterbotham’s assistant at Shortwood, Gloucestershire, and in 1820 pastor of the church in South Street, Wellington, Somerset, where he remained for 41 years. He retired in 1861, occasionally preaching in and around Bristol.