Daniel Miall

Daniel Miall (1747-1833), was the assistant minister to the Baptist congregation in Meeting-house Alley, Portsmouth, from 1774 until 1802. After the death of Joseph Horsey, he became the stated minister, with John Shoveller serving for a time as his assistant. He remained as pastor until 1829. Miall was born at Denmead, but soon moved with his parents to Portsmouth and joined the Baptist church in Thomas’s Street (76) before it moved to Meeting House Alley. He joined at Meeting House Alley in 1773, under John Lacy. He was called to the ministry in 1774, and preached regularly. His wife died in 1797, and he remarried in 1800. Miall was active in promoting village preaching, and he started works in Green Row, Marylebone, where a meetinghouse was built by Shoveller in 1800 (a church was formed there in 1828) (82).  Another one at Forton, Gosport; one at Ebenezer, Southsea; and among some others, one at Newport. A Baptist church had been there, but had become Unitarian. In 1775 Horsey, and Mursell of Lymington, often preached in Newport and formed a new church there in 1809 and a chapel built in 1812, with John Shoveller serving as their first pastor (91). After Shoveller returned to Portsea, he was assistant to Miall.  Miall resigned in 1829 in poor health and died on 25 February 1833, aged 87. He was succeeded by C. E. Birt.  Among the ministers called out from Meeting House Alley were Saffery, Miall, Crooms, Barnett, Mallett, Shoveller, Ivimey, Knight, and many others. See P. Ridoutt, The Early Baptist History of Portsmouth (Landport: G. Chamberlain, 1888).