Edward Pickard

Edward Pickard (3 December 1714 - 10 February 1778) was an English dissenting minister who founded the Orphan Working School in 1758.

He also led a group who tried to change the law restricting the rights of dissenting ministers.

However his views changed through Calvinism to Arianism and he moved on through a number of churches before coming to London as an afternoon preacher.

[1] In 1758 he was working as an assistant to Thomas Newman at the Presbyterian meeting in Carter Lane.

Whilst there he was the leading light of fourteen people who met[2] and founded the Orphan Working School.