His grandfather, John Sturch, ministered at Crediton, Devon; he published A Compendium of Truths, Exeter, 1731, and a sermon on persecution, 1736.
He became an ironmonger in London, and an original member in 1774 of the Unitarian Essex Street Chapel opened by Theophilus Lindsey.
His second daughter, Elizabeth Jesser, married John Reid and founded Bedford College, London, in October 1849.
[1] In 1799 Sturch published anonymously a short book entitled Apeleutherus; or an Effort to attain Intellectual Freedom.
In 1819 it was reprinted (anonymously), with a dedication to Thomas Belsham, a fourth essay On a Future State, and three additional sonnets.