Joseph Grigg

GRIGG, Joseph. b. ca. 1720; d Walthamstow, 29 October 1768. The son of poor parents, he left his trade in 1743 to become the Assistant Minister to Thomas Bures at the Presbyterian Chapel at Silver Street in London. In 1747, the year Bures died, he left the ministry. He married the wealthy widow of an Army officer and moved to St Albans in Hertfordshire. His health appears not to have been good and his neighbour Thomas Greene in his elegy on Grigg’s death refers to ‘his old complaint’ of ‘Alas, my Head’. Grigg was a renowned preacher whose sermon The Young Chevalier: No Godspeed to Him was preached at Silver Street in September 1745 ‘on account of the current rebellion’ and published with a...