Joseph Jenkins

Joseph Jenkins (1743-1819) was the son of a Baptist minister (Evan Jenkins) from Wrexham. He was educated in London and eventually studied at Aberdeen as a Ward scholar. He was baptized by Samuel Stennett at Little Wild Street Church in 1766. After a brief pastorate in an Independent church in Chester, he served for several years in London, tutoring ministerial students under the auspices of the Baptist Education Fund. He participated in the ordination of Abraham Booth at Little Prescot Street on 16 February 1769. He commenced his ministry as pastor of the Old Meeting (Baptist/Independent) in Wrexham in 1773. In 1793 he removed to Blandford Street, London, and in 1798 succeeded Joseph Swain at Walworth, remaining there until December 1818. He died the following year. He was awarded an honorary D.D. from Edinburgh in 1790. Among his publications are The Orthodox Dissenting Minister’s Reasons for Applying Again to Parliament (1772); The Christian’s Strength:  A Sermon Preached at Wrexham, in Denbighshire (Shrewsbury and London, 1775) (mentioned in letter 21); The National Debt, Considered in a Sermon, Preached at Wrexham in Denbighshire, February 21, 1781. Being the Day Appointed for a General Fast (Shrewsbury, 1781). See Kevan, London’s Oldest, 90.