Thomas Towle

Thomas Towle (1724-1806) was an Independent minister in Ropemakers’ Alley and Aldermanbury, London, 1747-1806.  An excellent scholar and an unyielding defender of orthodoxy, he was much involved with charitable work (including the Maze Pond Charity School) and was considered by many as the “chamber-counsellor” of the Dissenters in London.  He published several funeral sermons, including the graveside oration at Bunhill Cemetery in London in 1774 for Edward Hitchin, Benjamin Flower’s childhood pastor. See J. A. Jones, ed., Bunhill Memorials, Sacred Reminiscences of Three Hundred Ministers and Other Persons of Note, who are Buried in Bunhill Fields (London: J. Paul, 1849), 282.