George Keith

George Keith (d. 1782) joined John Gill’s congregation at Carter Lane, Southwark, in 1756. He was a bookseller and printer, first in Cheapside (1749-1753) and then at several locations in Gracechurch Street (1753-1782). He married John Gill’s daughter, and published many of Gill’s most important works. Among his apprentices were two important Dissenting figures in London in the last quarter of the eighteenth century: Joseph Johnson (1738-1809) and Joseph Gurney (1744-1815). In 1774 (after Gill’s death), Keith and Joshua Warne, his friend and fellow deacon, both holding High Calvinist views, left Carter Lane and its new pastor, John Rippon, and joined William Button’s new congregation in Dean Street, Southwark. See Horsleydown and Carter Lane Church Book, 1719–1808, MS., Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle, London, ff. 22, 27.