Samuel Pearce

He studied at the Baptist College, Bristol, and in 1790 was appointed minister of Cannon Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, where he remained [1] The ordination service on 18 August 1790 gathered Caleb Evans, Edward Edmonds, Andrew Fuller, Robert Hall, the elder, and John Ryland.

[2] Pearce's house in St Paul's Square, Birmingham was wrecked in 1791 by a "Church and King" riot, in his absence.

He was one of the 12 ministers who, at Kettering on 2 October 1792, signed the resolutions founding the Baptist Missionary Society.

[8] In Pearce's Memoirs, edited by Andrew Fuller, London, 1800, there were 11 poetical pieces, some of which were included in nonconformist hymnals.

[1] Pearce published a radical pamphlet in 1790, The Oppressive, Unjust and Prophane Nature, and Tendency of the Corporation and Test Acts.