John Hindle

John Hindle (d. c. 1800) was trained at Wainsgate by John Fawcett. After preaching for a time at Bingley, Hindle removed to the church at Pellon Lane, Halifax, where he ministered from 1779 to 1789, succeeding William Hartley. During Hindle’s time at Pellon Lane, the chapel was enlarged, the membership grew, and his salary was doubled. Unfortunately, Hindle’s personality clashed with many in the congregation, and “his irritable disposition led to his removal” in 1789, according to a church historian. He followed this with pastorates at Blackley (1791-1793) and Salt-house Lane in Hull (1794), where he succeeded John Beatson. He remained only one year and by 1798 was ministering at Rochdale Road (formerly in Coldhouse Lane) in Manchester, succeeding John Sharp. His tenure was short-lived, however, for he was dead by 1800. See C. E. Shipley, ed., The Baptists of Yorkshire: Being the Centenary Memorial Volume of the Yorkshire Baptist Association (London and Bradford: [n.p.], 1912), 68, 94, 101, 216; T. Michael, A Brief Historical Account of the First Baptist Church, Halifax (Halifax: S. N. Whitaker, 1890), 13; Kenneth Dix, Strict and Particular: English Strict and Particular Baptists in the Nineteenth Century (Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK: Baptist Historical Society, 2001), 34, n.16.