Henry Crassweller 

Henry Crassweller (d. 1880) was a deacon at the Baptist church at Eagle Street in London from 1812 to 1880. A letter from Crassweller, dated 3 December 1841, from 36 Welbeck Street, London, appeared in the Baptist Magazine 34 (1842): 31. He was a generous giver to the BMS, contributing £50 to the Jubilee Fund in December 1842. He also collected another £1.16 for the Fund. His son, Harris (1827-1905), completed his studies at Stepney College in 1854 (he earned a B.A. as well from London University). He ministered to Baptist congregations at Leominster (1854-1856), Woolwich (1856-1864), St. Mary’s Gate, Derby (1864-1871), and Cross Street, Islington (1871-1887). Edward Whymper, a member at Maze Pond, Southwark, mentions in his diary that he heard the younger Crasweller preach once at Maze Pond in 1856, noting that the sermon was “very good in matter, but dreadful bad in style.” See Missionary Herald (January 1843), 52; Seymour J. Price, “Maze Pond and the Matterhorn,” Baptist Quarterly 10 (1940-1941), 202-208; F. G. Hastings, “The Passing of St. Mary’s Gate, Derby,” Baptist Quarterly 9 (1938-1939), 45-49; Baptist Handbook (1906), 433-434.