Joseph Lister 

Joseph Lister (1627-1709), Nonconformist autobiographer from Bradford, Yorkshire, was raised in a Puritan home. He moved to London in the early 1650s and joined the Presbyterian congregation of Edmund Calamy at St Mary Aldermanbury. He stayed for three years, working as a servant in various households. In 1655 he returned to the north of England, settling eventually at Allerton, where he died in 1709. His autobiography, which is typical of other puritan texts in its emphasis on the workings of God's providence at critical moments of the subject's life, remained unpublished until 1842, though his account of the siege of Bradford was published earlier, in 1810.  See The Autobiography of Joseph Lister of Bradford, 1627–1709, ed. A. Holroyd (Bradford: A. Holroyd, 1860).