Cecil, Richard (1776-1800)

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Venn: Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, Mar. 18, 1790; from Oxford. M.A. 1790. [S. of Thomas, of Chiswell Street, London, scarlet-dyer to the East India Company. B. there Nov. 8, 1748.] Matric. (Queen's College, Oxford) May 19, 1773, age 24; B.A. (Cxford) 1777. Previously in a business house in the City of London. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Sept. 22, 1776; priest, Feb. 23, 1777; C. of Rauceby and Cranwell. Served the churches of Thornton, Bagworth and Markfield, Leics. R. of All Saints' and of St Thomas's, Lewes, Sussex, 1777-98. Removed to Islington, Middlesex. Lecturer at St Margaret's, Lothbury and Evening Lecturer at Orange Street Chapel, Leicester Fields. Minister of St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780-1808. Became one of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival. R. of Bisley, 1786-1810. V. of Chobham, Surrey, 1800-10. Author, devotional and biographical tracts. [His writings were published in four volumes in 1811, with an account of his life and character by the Rev. Josiah Pratt, the editor.] Died Aug. 15, 1810, at Hampstead. Buried at St Andrew's, Holborn. Father of Jesaiah (1800) and William (1809). (Al. Oxon.; Brayley, Surrey, II. 151; D.N.B.; G. Mag.)

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