James Mursell Phillippo

James Mursell Phillippo (1798-1879)—Phillippo was from Norfolk and trained for the ministry at Horton Academy, Bradford. He arrived in Jamaica as a BMS missionary in 1823, working at Spanish Town, planting churches and establishing schools. During his ministry in Jamaica, which lasted more than fifty years, he baptized over 5000 people and educated about the same number in his schools. He worked closely with William Knibb and Thomas Burchell in leading the fight for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Commonwealth in the early 1830s. He also had plans for a university in Jamaica patterned after University College, London. See E. B. Underhill, Life of James Mursell Phillippo (London: Yates and Alexander, 1881).