Thomas Toke Lynch

In 1841 he became a Sunday school teacher and district visitor, occasionally preaching and giving lectures on sight-singing and temperance.

[1] In 1843 Lynch entered Highbury Independent College, but then shortly withdrew, largely for health reasons.

[1] In failing health, Lynch resigned his charge in 1856, but resumed it in 1860 in Gower Street, pending the opening of Mornington Church, a new structure in the Hampstead Road, where he ministered to his death on 9 May 1871.

Lynch himself replied to his opponents in The Ethics of Quotation, and in a pamphlet of doggerel verse, entitled Songs Controversial (both London, 1856, and issued under the pseudonym "Silent Long").

[2] He was the author of several prose works, as well as lectures, addresses, sermons, controversial tracts, and magazine articles:[1] He was a musician, and composed Tunes to Hymns in the "Rivulet," twenty-five of which, edited by Thomas Pettit, were published after Lynch's death under that title (London, 1872), with a preface signed "Theodore Burkeson" found among Lynch's papers.