Grantham Killingworth

Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist.

Life

A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51).[1][2]

Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich.[1]

Works

Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against Thomas Emlyn; in favour of adult baptism, against John Taylor, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley. His publications include:[1]

  • A Supplement to the Sermons … at Salters' Hall against Popery, 1735; 3rd ed. 1736; 5th ed. 1738, with appendices, including his answer to Emlyn's Previous Question, 1710.
  • An Examination, 1741, of Foster's Discourse (1744) on "catholic communion".
  • An Answer to the Defence of Dr. Foster, 1752, (the Defence was by "Philocatholicus", i.e. John Wiche).
  • An Answer to Mr. Charles Bulkley's Pleas for Mixt Communion, 1756.
  • A Letter … to the late … Mr. Whiston, 1757.

Notes
  1. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Killingworth, Grantham" . Dictionary of National Biography. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. Alexander Gordon, ‘Killingworth, Grantham (bap.1698, d. 1778)’, rev. Emma Major, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 June 2014
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Killingworth, Grantham". Dictionary of National Biography. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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