Joseph Belcher

Joseph Belcher (1794-1859) was originally from Birmingham. He was a prolific author, producing numerous biographies of evangelical figures from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. An active leader within the Baptist Home Missionary Society, he ministered to churches at Somersham, Folkestone, Chelsea, and Greenwich from 1818 to 1842. From 1832 to 1840 he served as Secretary to the Baptist Union. He emigrated to America in 1844 and died in Philadelphia in 1859. He published brief biographies of George Whitefield, Isaac Mann, and William Carey, as well as a history of the Baptist Irish Society in 1845.