Beaumont Baptist Church
Minister Records
These records have been typed up from the original record books of Beaumont Baptist Church, formerly known as Beaumont Chapel. See the church history for details of the change of name. The original record books are now in the Suffolk County Record Office but they contain no more information than is recorded here.
As these web pages are more than just a database we have not been constrained by preformmatted data fields and have therefore entered all the data available. That is birth records give in most cases both birth and baptism dates, and likewise both death and burial dates are given where they were recorded. Many of the records give additional information such as occupation and all this is included.
The data from the original records has been entered 'as written' with no alterations to correct spelling or other mistakes. Where an error has been found or is suspected, and where there is doubt over what was written then this is indicated with a note written in text placed in square brackets [like this].
All dates are shown in UK format as DD/MM/YYYY.
| Dates | Name | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 1795 | Mr George | Not approved. Left & started Baptist cause at Grundisburgh |
| 1800 - 1803 | Mr Lewis | |
| 1803 - 1805 | Mr Williams | Went to America |
| 1806 - 1807 | Charles Langford | Went to Newmarket |
| 1808 | The people judging the frequent change of Ministers through the action of the Countess of Huntingdon's Trustees to be injudicious to the attendance resolved to obtain a settled Minister & in answer to request Revd. Matthew Wilds sent several students from Hackney academy - Messrs Scott, Gore, Evans, Docker & Seaton. | |
| 1809 - 1814 | William Seaton | From Hackney Academy, to Andover |
| 1815 - 1817 | Owen Morris | From Hoxton Academy |
| 1817 - 1821 | John Palmer | |
| 1821 - 1823 | John Kimpton | |
| 1823 - 1829 | William Hurn | Debenham (was Rector) Died |
| 1829 - 1835 | Henry Taylor | Wymondley Academy, Herts |
| 1836 - 1838 | William J Unwin | Highbury College Glasgow |
| 1839 - 1855 | John Ross | |
| 1855 - 1858 | William Palmer | £120 p.a. - Died triumphant after a few days severe illness |
| 1858 - 1862 | H Scullard | £130 - From Mill Hill, Blackburn, To Belper Independent |
| 1862 - 1866 | G O Frost | £122 - From Wivenhoe, To Deverall St, London |
| 1866 - 1869 | George Shaw | £130 - From Patricroft, Manchester, To Brook St Ind, Norwich |
| 1870 - 1873 | Jabez G Carpenter | £100 - Chapel Keeper rent free house & £2, Organ Blower 16/- p.a. |
| 1874 - 1877 | Thomas Joseph Kightley | |
| 1878 - 1891 | Henry Henson | |
| 1894 - 1897 | W Gathercole | |
| 1899 - 1900 | Rev H D Tooke | Oversight by Baptist Minister at Grundisburgh |
| 1900 - 1905 | Rev. E W Gibbons | To Islington, London |
| 1905 - 1917 | Rev. G Hunt Rumsey | To Thaxted |
| 1917 - 1923 | Rev. H J Martin | |
| 1926 - 1930 | Rev. W G Nunn | |
| 1931 - 1935 | Rev. A N Geary | |
| 1936 - 1942 | Rev. Ray Smith | From Walton on Thames |
| 1943 - 1945 | Interregnum | |
| 1946 - 1948 | Rev. O D Wiles | |
| 1948 - 1952 | Pastor Stanley Beard | From Manor Park, London |
| 1952 - 1953 | Interregnum | |
| 1954 - 1958 | Pastor J J Booth | |
| 1959 - 1963 | Pastor Bryan Love | |
| 1963 - 1965 | Interegnum | |
| 1965 - 1968 | Rev. A G Dunn | |
| 1968 - 1969 | Interregnum | |
| 1969 - 1978 | Rev. Fred O Staddon | From Cricklewood, retired |
| 1978 - 1985 | Rev. Tim Marks | From Bridlington, to Moorlands Bible College |
| 1985 - 1994 | Rev. Kevan Taylor | From Milton Hall, Kidderminster, to Wymondham |
| 1995 - 1996 | Interregenum | |
| 1996 - 2002 | Rev. Brian White | From Spurgeon's College, to Horsham. |
| 2003 - 2005 | Interregnum | |
| 2005 - 2019 | Rev. Mark Hardingham | From Spurgeon's College, to retirement. |
| 2016 - Present | Rev. Doug Waller | From Spurgeon's College. |
| 2020 - Present | Guy Mansell | (Families Pastor) - From Gerrards Cross. |