Richard Moss Worth

Richard Moss Worth, after spending some time with Newman in London, studied with John Sutcliff from 1808 to 1810, apparently receiving some financial support from the London Education Society and the Particular Baptist Fund, as this letter suggests. Newman wrote to Sutcliff on 31 December 1808, inquiring about Worth’s progress and hoping for “a favourable report.” Worth inherited a baronetcy not long after leaving Olney, and failed to make any mark as a Baptist preacher. For more on Worth, see letter 103; see also “Calendar of Letters,” Baptist Quarterly 6 (1932-1933), 373; P. B. Gravett, Over Three Hundred Years of God’s Grace: A Short History of Sutcliff Baptist Church (Olney: [n.p.], 1987), 28.