Thomas Hands 

Thomas F. Hands (c. 1817-1870) came from the church in Cannon Street, Birmingham. After studying at Bristol Academy, he and his wife were appointed as BMS missionaries to Jamaica in December 1842. He worked at Staceyville, Mount Angus (with David Day), Yallahs, and beginning in 1847, at the second Baptist church in Montego Bay. In 1852, he returned to England, where he ministered to Baptist congregations at Salisbury  (1853-1856) and Luton (1857-1869) as well as serving for a time as traveling secretary for the Bible Translation Society.  He died in 1870 at the age of 53. See John Clarke, Memorials of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica (London: Yates and Alexander, 1869), 194.