Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist.
A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51). [1] [2]
Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich. [1]
Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against Thomas Emlyn; in favour of adult baptism, against John Taylor, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley. His publications include: [1]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "
Killingworth, Grantham".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist.
A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51). [1] [2]
Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich. [1]
Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against Thomas Emlyn; in favour of adult baptism, against John Taylor, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley. His publications include: [1]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "
Killingworth, Grantham".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.