Thomas Harmer 

Thomas Harmer (1714-88) was born at Norwich. He was educated at Moorfields and immediately began his ministry as pastor of the Independent Church in Wattisfield in 1734, remaining there until his death in 1788. He compiled a detailed history of the Congregational churches & most of the dissenting churches in Norfolk & Suffolk up to the year 1774, a manuscript now at Dr. Williams’s Library, London. He was succeeded by Habbakuk Crabb, son of a deacon in the church and a native of Wattisfield (and the uncle of Henry Crabb Robinson, the famed diarist). See Harmer’s obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1788), Part 2:1127.