Robert Cleaver Chapman (4 January 1803 – 12 June 1902), known as the "apostle of Love", was a pastor, teacher and evangelist.

In the same year he became a Christian after listening to the gospel preached by James Harington Evans[1] in a nonconformist chapel in London.

He accepted the post as pastor of a Strict Baptist chapel only on the condition that he would only be bound by what was written in the Bible and not by any denominational creeds or beliefs.

[citation needed] Other examples of the assembly moving to a non denominational position are one man ministry being replaced by the priesthood of all believers and Chapman refusing any clerical salary.

Chapman rose to become an influential figure within the Plymouth Brethren alongside John Nelson Darby and George Müller.

For example, Chapman preferred to live very frugally in a deprived area of Barnstaple in order to reach the poor.