Samuel Rosewell

Reverend Samuel Rosewell (1679 – 7 April 1722) was a Presbyterian minister born at Rotherhithe, Surrey.

Samuel was the eldest son of Reverend Thomas Rosewell (1630–1692) and his second wife, Anne Godsalve (née Wanley).

He resigned his preferment from ill health in October 1719 and moved to Mare Street, Hackney.

His performances were accurate, judicious, and lively; fitted to inform and instruct the mind, as well as to engage the affections; and to promote a serious attention to the concerns of religion.

In the several relations of private life, as a son, a husband, a father, and a friend, he was an ornament to his character, and discovered the prevailing influence of religious principles.

'[1] He was the author of more than twenty works, the majority being sermons on practical and devotional subjects, but including: Seasonable Instructions for the Afflicted, London, 1711.

A portrait engraved by Van den Bergh is printed in the May 1794 issue of the Protestant Dissenters' Magazine.

Minister of the Gospel, Whose zeal and labour of God, Whose charity and love of men, Whose courage and patience under long and acute pains, And whose joyful hope and triumph in death, Gave the world a glorious example of Christianity.