James Coultart 

James Coultart (d. 1836) was from Holywood, near Dumfries, Scotland. He studied for the minister at Bristol Baptist Academy. He was approved as a BMS missionary in 1816, along with his wife, the former Mary Ann Chambers. They sailed for Jamaica on 14 March 1817 and landed on 9 May. He quickly got a license to preach, incorporating a group of members from George Lisle’s congregation. His wife died that September. Coultart’s health was not good either, and he returned to England in 1818 and was present at the ordinations of Christopher Kitching and Thomas Godden that March.  He remarried and returned to Jamaica and commenced building a chapel in Kingston (Kitching had already died). The chapel was opened on 27 January 1822 and accommodated 2000 people.  He resigned from the Kingston church in 1829 and removed to Mount Charles; he was replaced by Joseph Burton (1803-1860) in Kingston. Coultart traveled to England several times due to health reasons, returning once again to Jamaica in 1834 with James Phillipo. He preached at St. Ann’s Bay until his death in 1836.  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), 2:24, 234.