Thomas Beck

Thomas Beck (1755?-1844) was born at Southwark and ministered at Whitefield’s Tabernacle, Moorfields, and in Kennington before serving as pastor at Hermitage Street in Wapping, 1776-1777. He then supplied at various places before ministering at Princes Street, Gravesend, 1780-1788. He returned to London and pastored the Independent congregation at Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, London, from 1788 to 1825, living in Deptford. He also built a small chapel in his garden at Midway Place, Deptford, in 1790.  See Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark; Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time, 4 vols. (London: W. Wilson for W. Button, 1808–1814), 1.327; Congregational Calendar (1845), 113; Evangelical Magazine (1844), 295.