Joseph Hughes (Baptist)

Joseph Hughes (1769–1833) was an English Baptist minister, best known for his role as a founder of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

[1] When young, Hughes was sent from his family in London as boarder at the school run in Darwen, Lancashire by the Presbyterian minister Robert Smalley, in 1778.

[1] From this point his education was supported by the Trust of John Ward, set up for young Dissenters, Baptists preferred, aged from 14 to 18.

[5] Hughes at this period joined the social circle of Joseph Cottle, beginning a long friendship.

[8] In 1799 Foster joined Hughes in Battersea, to help educate a group of 20 Sierra Leoneans brought from Africa by John Campbell, and originally destined for Scotland.