William gadsby biography death

As his parents were poor, he had little or no education. When 13, he was apprenticed to a ribbon weaver, but was subsequently compelled to leave that trade, in consequence of a tenderness of the chest; and he then became a stocking weaver. In , he went to see men hung, and the horrid spectacle had such an effect upon his mind that he was never afterwards like the same youth; for the thoughts of eternity preyed much upon his spirits.

In he received his dismission from that church, and joined a few people who met in a barn at Hinckley. The first time that he stood up and took a text was on Whit-Sunday, , in an upper room in a yard at Bedworth, Warwickshire. His text was 1 Pet. In , a chapel was built for him at Desford, Leicestershire, and he at the same time often preached in the barn at Hinckley.

The word is said to have been greatly blessed. In , a chapel was built at Hinckley.

Death.

In , he removed with his family to Manchester, to the chapel in which a Mr. Sharpe formerly preached, in St. Gadsby, in the presence of upwards of 6, persons. In , in consequence of a fire at my premises in London having destroyed the stereotype plates of the hymn book, the Second Supplement, by Mr. My father also published a Selection of Hymns for Sunday Schools.

He was buried in the vault No.