George Townsend

George Townsend (1744-1783) was from the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, and was one of four original students to attend John Fawcett’s academy, where he was baptized and admitted to Fawcett’s congregation at Hebden Bridge. He was invited by the Accrington church for a trial ministry in 1775, and soon became the regular minister, remaining there until his death in 1783. John Fawcett preached his funeral sermon. See Wylie, Baptist Churches of Accrington, 36-38.