Stephen Addington

Stephen Addington (1729-96) studied for the mninistry at Philip Doddridge’s Independent academy at Northampton in the late 1820s, having been raised in that village and the Castle Hill congregation. He began ministering at Spaldwick, Huntingdonshire, in 1750, before removing to Market Harborough in 1752, where he remained until 1781. That year he became minister of the Independent congregation at Miles Lane in London (until 1795) as well as tutor at the Mile End Academy, 1783-1791. Among his works are A Dissertation on the Religious Knowledge of the Antient Jews and Patriarchs, Containing an Enquiry into the Evidences of their Belief and Expectation of a Future State (1757); The Christian Minister’s Reasons for Baptizing Infants (1771); The Life of Paul the Apostle (1784); and A Letter to the Deputies of Protestant Dissenting Congregations, in and about . . . London and Westminster on their Intended Application to Parliament, for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (1787). An affectionate history of Addington can be found in Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark; Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time, 4 vols. (London: W. Wilson for W. Button, 1808–1814), 1:499-518.