Walter Dendy

Walter Dendy (d. 1881) was appointed as a BMS missionary in 1831 from the church in Salisbury, under the ministry of P. J. Saffery (Dendy’s brother-in-law). The Dendy’s sailed for Jamaica with the Burchells in 1831. Like many of the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica, Dendy was imprisoned in 1833; upon his release he took over William Knibb’s church at Falmouth. In 1835 he removed to the church at Salter’s Hill, the church originally formed by Moses Baker. During the time of martial law, government forces killed twenty-one of his members. Dendy sailed for England (with two of his deacons) in March 1841, returning to Jamaica in November of that same year. He would remain with the BMS until his death in 1881. Along with John Clark and James Phillippo, his fellow missionaries in Jamaica, Dendy published The Voice of Jubilee:  A Narrative of the Baptist Mission, Jamaica, from its Commencement; with Biographical Notices of its Fathers and Founders (London: J. Snow, 1865). See John Clarke, Memorials of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica (London: Yates and Alexander, 1869), 159-166; Baptist Magazine 34 (1842), 397-398.