Christopher Kitching

Christopher Kitching (d. 1819) (John Ryland spells it variously “Kitchen,” “Kitchin,” and “Kitching”) became a student of John Trickett at Bramley before studying at Horton Academy under Steadman and Isaac Mann. He was apparently the first student to enter the foreign service from that school, being set apart, along with Thomas Godden, at Frome in March 1818. He and his wife sailed from Falmouth on 30 July 1818, reaching Jamaica on 18 September 1818; unfortunately, he died that December.  Mrs. Kitching returned to Yorkshire, where she would marry Isaac Mann. Two letters by Kitching from Jamaica appeared in the Baptist Magazine 11 (1819), 47, 410; see also F. A. Cox, History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. (London: T. Ward, and G. and J. Dyer, 1842), 2:79-80.