Benjamin Bull Dexter

Benjamin Bull Dexter (d. 1863), after finishing his studies at Stepney College, was set apart as a BMS missionary at Olney on 21 January 1834. He arrived in Jamaica on 1 April 1834, ministering initially at Montego Bay and Salter’s Hill for a time, than at Rio Bueno and Stewart Town, laying the foundation stones for new chapel buildings at each place on 23 May 1835. He retired from the mission field in 1853 and returned to England, where he died in 1863. See John Clarke, Memorials of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica (London: Yates and Alexander, 1869), 167-168; F. A. Cox, History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. (London: T. Ward, and G. and J. Dyer, 1842), 2:207-209.