William Gamby

William Gamby (1790-1813) came from Southill, Bedfordshire, where his father, John Gamby (1730-1802), served as minister of the Baptist meeting, 1787-1802. The younger Gamby was apprenticed in Leicester and attended the ministry of Robert Hall.  He was baptized in 1810 and recommended as a missionary on 1 October 1811.   He studied under Sutcliff at Olney in 1812, but his health deteriorated, resulting in his untimely death the next year. See P. B. Gravett, Over Three Hundred Years of God’s Grace: A Short History of Sutcliff Baptist Church (Olney: [n.p.], 1987), 28; “Sutcliff’s Academy at Olney,” Baptist Quarterly 4 (1928–1929), 277; John Rippon, ed., Baptist Annual Register, vol. 4 (1801-02), 1074; Baptist Magazine 6 (1814), 200-02.