Richard Lovett (writer)

Richard Lovett (5 January 1851 – 29 December 1904) was an English minister in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and author.

The son of Richard Deacon Lovett and Annie Godart his wife, he was born at Croydon on 5 January 1851.

In 1867 he returned to England, and in 1869 entered Cheshunt College, the president of which, Dr. Henry Robert Reynolds, became a significant influence on him.

Lovett formed for himself a collection of early English Bibles and kindred works, which was dispersed after his death.

Towards the end of his life the affairs of Cheshunt College, of which he acted as honorary secretary, troubled him, and he was among the early workers for the reconstitution of the Congregational Union.