John Jarman

John Jarman (1774-1830) was originally from Clipston, the son of a tailor. In 1801, he moved to Oakham and joined the local Baptist church. He soon began lay preaching in Nottingham and Biggleswade, and in January 1804 the church at Biggleswade offered a trial pastorate to Jarman, but he declined in favor of accepting a call to the Friar Lane congregation at Notthingham. He arrived in Nottingham in April 1804, remaining as pastor until his death in 1830.  His only publication was The Duties of the Office of Deacons Explained and Enforced (1828). Jarman conducted a Sunday school for many years at Nottingham and often brought in other ministers to preach benefit sermons for the school. On 13 August 1809, Robert Hall preached the sermon. Jarman was successful during his tenure at Nottingham, and in August 1815 a new chapel was opened in George Street. Jarman also served on the BMS Committee in 1812. See John T. Godfrey and James Ward, The History of Friar Lane Baptist Church, Nottingham (Nottingham:  H. B. Saxton, 1903), 39, 47, 56, 199-203; Sydney F. Clark, “Nottingham Baptist Beginnings,” Baptist Quarterly 17 (1957-1958), 162-169; Cox, History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. (London: T. Ward, and G. and J. Dyer, 1842), 2:221.