James Lister

James Lister (c.1779-1851) was originally from Glasgow. He served as pastor of the first “English” Baptist church in Scotland, formed in Glasgow in 1801, with James Deakin  as one of his deacons. In 1803 Lister removed to the newly formed Baptist church in Lime Street (the result of a split in the congregation at Byrom Street after the death of Samuel Medley), where he would remain until 1847, by which time the church had moved to a new chapel in Hope Street. Thomas Raffles preached his funeral sermon on 30 November 1851. See George Yuille, History of the Baptists in Scotland from Pre-Reformation Times (Glasgow: Baptist Union Publications Committee, 1926), 60-61; “Calendar of Letters, 1742–1831,” Baptist Quarterly 6 (1932–1933), 138; Robert Halley, Lancashire: Its Puritanism and Nonconformity (Manchester: Tubbs and Brook, 1872), 535-536; David W. Bebbington, The Baptists in Scotland: A History (Glasgow: Baptist Union of Scotland, 1988), 33; Brian Talbot, The Search for a Common Identity: The Origins of the Baptist Union of Scotland 1800–1870. Studies in Baptist History and Thought, vol. 9 (Carlisle UK: Paternoster Press, 2003), 118, 122; Thomas Raffles, “The Perfect and Upright Man”: A Funeral Sermon for the Rev. James Lister delivered in Myrtle Street Baptist Chapel, Liverpool, on Sunday Morning, Nov 30, 1851 (Liverpool: Egerton Smith, 1851).