James Dore

James Dore (1763/64-1825) studied at Bristol Academy (1779-1782) and then succeeded Benjamin Wallin as pastor at Maze Pond in 1783, with Robert Robinson of Cambridge delivering the introductory discourse at Dore’s ordination service on 25 March 1784. Dore would remain at Maze Pond until 1815. Of the congregation at Maze Pond, Walter Wilson noted, “the church has long been in a flourishing state, and may vie with the most respectable congregations of the same persuasion.” Dore’s most significant publication was his sermon, On the African Slave Trade (1788). He was the younger brother of William Dore, Baptist minister at Cirencester. See Three Discourses Addressed to the Congregation at Maze-Pond, Southwark, on Their Publick Declaration of Having Chosen Mr. James Dore their Pastor, March 25th, 1784 (Cambridge: F. Archdeacon, 1784); Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark; Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time, 4 vols. (London: W. Wilson for W. Button, 1808–1814), 4:286; Roger Hayden, Continuity and Change: Evangelical Calvinism among Eighteenth-Century Baptist Ministers trained at Bristol Academy, 1690–1791 (London: Baptist Historical Society, for Roger Hayden, 2006), 230.