John Lavington, Sr.

John Lavington, Sr. (1690?-1759) served as minister at the Bow congregation (Presbyterian), Exeter, 1715-59. It was primarily Lavington, along with John Walrond (then at Ottery) and some other dissenting ministers in Exeter and Devon, who led the orthodox ministers in their attack against James Peirce and Joseph Hallett II, forcing the latter two out of their positions at the James Meeting in 1719 because of their Unitarian beliefs.