Samuel Greatheed 

Samuel Greatheed (d. 1823) was originally from London. Greatheed served in the British Army during the American War. He became an assistant tutor at William Bull’s Academy at Newport Pagnell in 1786; he later supplied as minister of an Independent congregation at Woburn, Bedfordshire, 1789-1791. He then accepted the pastorate and remained there until 1797, after which he retired to Bishops Hull, Somerset. He was one of the first editors of the Evangelical Magazine, as well as one of the founders of the London Missionary Society (1795) and the Bedfordshire Christian Union (1797). His major publication was Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Cowper, Esq. (1814). See Congregational Magazine 2 (1819), 56.