Richard Pengilly

Richard Pengilly (1782-1865) was originally from Cornwall. Pengilly became a Baptist in 1802, part of a small group that formed a Baptist church in Penzance. He studied at Bristol Academy (1803-1807) before accepting the pastorate of the Baptist church at Tuthill Stairs, Newcastle, where he was ordained on 12 August 1807. He remained there until April 1845, when he became chaplain for the Penzance Workhouse, a position he retained until 1857. He spent his final years at Croydon. His publication, Scripture Guide to Baptism, went through numerous editions in his lifetime. See David Douglass, History of the Baptist Churches in the North of England, from 1648 to 1845 (London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1846), 298.