Ottiwell Heginbothom

HEGINBOTHOM, Ottiwell. b. 1744; d. 1768. JJ notes that he was for a short time pastor of a nonconformist congregation at Sudbury, Suffolk, where some of the congregation left and built another chapel. This ‘so preyed upon his mind, and affected his health, that his pastorate terminated with his death within three years of his appointment’ (p. 506). Samuel Willoughby Duffield, writing before JJ, suggests that he may have been the son of another Ottiwell Heginbothom mentioned in The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists (1872). Duffield (1886, p. 76) states that Heginbothom was a student at Daventry under Caleb Ashworth, and that he was instituted as a pastor...