Bristol Education Society

Bristol Education Society was formed in 1770 by the citizens of Bristol and the Baptist congregation at Broadmead, led by Hugh and Caleb Evans, solely for the purpose of raising funds for the maintaining of a learned ministry through the means of Bristol Academy. It held its annual meeting every August, and began publishing the sermons preached at the meeting in 1773. A similar organization, the London Baptist Education Society, formed by Dr. Llewelyn, had existed since 1752. The leading officers for the collection of monies for the Bristol Society in 1776 were Frederick Bull, Esq., Leadenhall Street, London; John Reynolds, Artillery Court, London; Isaac Woodman, Thorpe, Leicestershire; J. C. Ryland, Northampton; Robert Robinson, Cambridge; John Bull, Esq., Treasurer; and Thomas Mullett, Secretary, the latter two from Bristol. See An Account of the Bristol Education Society Anno 1770 (Bristol: M. Ward, 1776), 12; Norman S. Moon, Education for Ministry: Bristol Baptist College, 1679-1979 (Bristol: Bristol Baptist College, 1979), 115.