John Towers

John Towers (1747?-1804) was the younger brother of Dr. Joseph Towers, the unitarian minister at Stoke Newington Green (with Richard Price).   John, apprenticed as a London packer, taught himself Greek and Hebrew and began preaching as an Independent.  He was ordained in 1769 and began ministering at Bartholomew Close; the congregation moved to the Barbican in 1784.   He published  Death gain to the Christian.  A sermon [on Acts ii.28] occasioned by the death of the Rev. T. Chorlton, pastor of a church of Christ, in Snow’s-Fields; who departed this life, December 19, 1774, in the 34th year of his age. Taken in shorthand when delivered; and faithfully transcribed by Joseph Gurney . . . with the oration at the interment.  London: Printed and sold by M[ary]. Lewis, no. 1, Paternoster-Row; and also at the Meeting, Snow’s-Fields.  1775. He also wrote a Preface to Maria de Fleury's Divine Poems and Essays on Various Subjects (1791), in whose congregation she had worshiped at one time.