William Field (minister)

He studied for the ministry first at Homerton College, but left for doctrinal reasons soon after the appointment of John Fell.

[2] Field succeeded James Kettle in 1789 as minister of the presbyterian congregation at Warwick, where he was ordained on 12 July 1790.

Thus began Field's close intimacy with Parr, a connection fostered by their common devotion to classical studies.

His meeting-house, rebuilt 1780, was fitted with a sloping floor, to improve its quality as an auditorium; Field excited some comment by surmounting the front of the building with a stone cross.

[2] Field died at Leam on 16 August 1851; a marble slab to his memory was placed in High Street Chapel, Warwick.

William Wilkins of Buryfield House, Bourton-on-the-Water, who became assistant to Benjamin Beddome in 1777, continuing to 1795 in Bourton.

He published many pamphlets and sermons: they included[2] Other publications were:[2] Field was a frequent contributor of critical and other articles to the Monthly Repository and Christian Reformer.