Terrill Fund, Bristol 

Terrill Fund, Bristol was established in 1717 “to make provision for the support of and succession in the Baptist Ministry,” some students at the Academy were also beneficiaries of the Terrill Fund, which was begun in the late 1680s and fully instituted in 1715 by Robert Bodenham (d. 1726) of Broadmead. The Terrill Fund was based primarily upon properties left to Broadmead from the estate of Edward Terrill (1634–c.1685), a leading member of the Broadmead church in the seventeenth century. By the late eighteenth century, the Terrill Fund was earning about £60 a year, enough to support two ministerial students. Other bequests, such as that from the estate of Bernard Foskett (1685-1758), enabled these Broadmead Funds to support several more ministerial students. These two Bristol funds served as a West Country counterbalance to the Particular Baptist Fund (sometimes called the “London Fund”), which was also founded in 1717 to assist Baptist ministerial students. See Roger Hayden, ed., The Records of a Church of Christ in Bristol, 1640-1687 (Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1974), 10-11; Raymond Brown, The English Baptists of the Eighteenth Century (London: Baptist Historical Society, 1986), 49; Norman S. Moon, Education for Ministry: Bristol Baptist College, 1679-1979 (Bristol: Bristol Baptist College, 1979), 104, 106-10.