Richard Darracott

Richard Darracott (1751-1795) attended Daventry Academy, under Caleb Ashworth, and began his ministry at Bridge Street Meeting, Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1770. In 1773 he became pastor to two congregations, one at Fulwood and the other at Bishops Hull, Somerset, remaining at the latter until 1793. He died at Taunton in 1795. He was the son of Risdon Darracott  (1717-1759), a student of Doddridge at Northampton. The elder Darracott ministered at Chulmleigh, Devon, and at Penzance, Cornwall, 1738-1739, before removing to Barnstaple and then to Wellington, Somerset, where he ministered to the Independent congregation from 1741 to 1759. Risdon Darracott was affectionately known as “the Star of the West.”  He was also the author of Scripture Marks of Salvation, Drawn up to Help Christians to Know the True State of Their Souls (1756).  See Evangelical Magazine 3 (1795), 305; Protestant Dissenter’s Magazine 2 (1795), 216.