Josiah Fletcher

Josiah Fletcher was a deacon for many years in the Baptist church at St. Mary’s, Norwich, during the pastorates of Joseph Kinghorn (1789-1832) and William Brock (1833-1848). Fletcher was a printer, bookseller, and bookbinder by trade, with offices in Upper Haymarket Street. He published, along with his fellow church member, Simon Wilkin, the East Anglian, Norfolk and Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Herald in Norfolk. In 1845 a new paper was begun, the Norfolk News, of which six of the founding proprietors were Baptists, including Fletcher, who printed the paper. See Charles Boardman Jewson, The Baptists of Norfolk (London: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1957) 99-102, 119; George Gould, Open Communion and the Baptists of Norwich (Norwich: Josiah Fletcher, 1860) lvii; Pigot and Co.'s Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedford, Cambridge, Essex, Herts, Huntingdon, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex (London: Pigot, 1839) 492.