William Maurice 

William Maurice (1762-1802) left the Independent congregation at Stockport to succeed Robert Simpson at Bolton in October 1791.  He removed to Fetter Lane in London in 1797 and remained there until his premature death a few years later. See F. W. Peaples, History of the St. George’s Road Congregational Church and its Connections, Bolton, 1913, 34-38.