William Langford

William Langford, D. D. (1704-75), Independent minister, was born in Sussex. He completed an M.A. at Glasgow in 1727 and then pastored at Gravesend in Kent from 1727-34, followed by a stint in London at Silver-street with the Rev. Thomas Bures for one part of the Sunday service. In 1736 he became assistant as well to James Wood at the Weigh-House.  In 1742 he quit Silver-street and became full pastor at Weigh-house after the death of Rev. Wood.  He remained there until his death in 1775.  Samuel Palmer was an assistant for Langford at the Weigh-house from 1763-66, leaving then to assume the pastorate at Mare-street, Hackney, in London.  John Clayton, Benjamin Flower’s brother-in-law, would assume the pastorate of the congregation at Weigh-house in 1779.  Samuel Wilton ministered from 1775-79.  Clayton married Flower’s sister, Mary, the oldest daughter of George Flower of Cannon-street.  Clayton’s “A Sermon occasioned by the late riots in Birmingham” was answered by a Mr. Fell. See Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark; Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time, 4 vols. (London: W. Wilson for W. Button, 1808–1814),  1.183-87; 202-04).