Daniel Brunsdon 

Daniel Brunsdon (1777-1801) was originally from Pershore, Brunsdon. He was baptized by John Ryland, Jr., and trained for the ministry by John Sutcliff at Olney. John Chamberlain was his fellow student at that time. Brunsdon sailed for India in 1799 with his new wife (a Miss Hirons of Fairford, Gloucestershire), the Marshmans, William Grant, and William Ward. His ministry in Serampore was short-lived, unfortunately, for he died of an enlarged spleen and mercury poisoning in July 1801. His wife later married James Rolt, a builder and lay worker in India in 1803; she returned to England in 1810. See F. A. Cox, History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. (London: T. Ward, and G. and J. Dyer, 1842), 2:76.