Samuel Saunders

Samuel Saunders (1780-1835) spent his early years in Clapham; he was baptized in a Baptist church there (under the ministry of John Ovington) in 1801. He soon entered Bristol Academy (with the assistance of Joseph Hughes at Battersea) and in 1803 was ordained at Penzance, Cornwall. He did not stay long at Penzance, however, for after the death of John Kingdon, the church at Badcox Lane in Frome called him in 1806 to be their minister. Saunders left Frome in 1826 to become pastor of the Baptist church at Byrom Street in Liverpool, remaining there until his death in 1835. See Charles M. Birrell, “Memoir of the Late Rev. Samuel Saunders,” Baptist Magazine 32 (1840), 1-5.