Thomas Toller

Thomas Toller (1756-1821) came to the Independent chapel at Kettering in October 1775, just at the end of his studies at Daventry (1771-75).   He was officially installed as pastor on 15 June 1777 and ordained on 28 May 1778, remaining there until his death in 1821. The church prospered greatly under Toller’s ministry, adding 221 members during his tenure.  He was a highly respected minister among Calvinistic evangelicals. Among Toller’s publications are A Plain and Popular View of the Evidences of Christianity and a funeral sermon on the death of Samuel Palmer of Hackney, his close friend. See Thomas Coleman’s Memorials of the Independent Churches of Northamptonshire (London: John Snow, 1853), 107-14; Robert Hall, Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Toller, in The Works of Robert Hall, ed. Olinthus Gregory, 6 vols. (2nd ed., London, 1833), 4.305-46.