Newton Bosworth 

Newton Bosworth (1778-1848) arrived in Cambridge in 1799 as Olinthus Gregory’s assistant in his day school. Shortly thereafter he joined St. Andrew’s Street, commencing a lifelong friendship with Robert Hall. When Gregory left for Woolwich in January 1803, Bosworth took over as headmaster of the school, a position he maintained for the next twenty years. He married Catherine Paul of Cambridge in July 1805, and two years later moved to Northampton Street, where he opened a boarding school. In 1811, Bosworth was elected a deacon at St. Andrew’s Street. In the summer of 1823, he moved to London, settling at Tottenham, where he opened another boarding school. In 1834 he left England for Canada, where his family had emigrated the year before. While in Canada, Bosworth was instrumental in the formation of the Canada Baptist College in 1838; he also ministered to several congregations in Upper Canada, helping to form the Canada Baptist Union in 1843. He authored several works, including articles in Pantologia (1808-1813); The Accidents of Human Life (1813); Hochelaga Depicta (1839), and a history of Montreal. See Church Book: St. Andrew’s Street Baptist Church, Cambridge 1720-1832 (London: Baptist Historical Society, 1991), 166-167.