James, JOHN ANGELL

James, JOHN ANGELL, an eminent Congregationalist minister, was born at Blandford Forum, Dorsetshire, June 6, 1785, apprenticed to a linen-draper, afterwards studied for a short time at a dissenting college at Gosport, and was placed on the 'preaching list' at seventeen. He was highly popular, and when only twenty was settled as pastor of the 'church meeting in Carr's Lane,' Birmingham, where he remained till his death, October 1, 1859. He published a multitude of sermons, tracts, addresses, and small religious volumes (the best known being the Anxious Inquirer), which had a vast circulation (collected, 17 vols. 1860-62). See his Life by Dale (1861).