William Bengo Collyer

COLLYER, William Bengo. b. Deptford, Kent, 14 April 1782; d. Peckham, south London, 9 January 1854. He was educated for the Independent ministry at Homerton College. He became the minister of a small chapel at Peckham, south London in 1800, ‘much debased in doctrine’ (Duffield, 1886, p. 195). He was ordained to that chapel in 1801. He remained there for more than fifty years, preaching his last sermon one month before his death. He greatly increased the congregation by his eloquent preaching, and the chapel was enlarged and rebuilt in 1816. Between 1813 and 1826 he was also pastor of a congregation at Salters’ Hall, London, with the agreement of the Peckham congregation. Collyer was a...