an English Independent minister, was born at Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, in 1783. He was carefully trained in the Established Church; was converted at the age of twenty, and became a member of the Independent Church at Ossett in 1806. In April, 1811, he was admitted to the academy at Idle; the same year became pastor at Mixenden, Halifax; in 18181 removed to Bingley, near Bradford; in 1,837, went to reside at Batley near Dewsbury, where, through his efforts, a commodious place of worship was built in 1839, and in which, as contributor, a frequent supply, and as deacon, he rendered efficient service till his death, May 4,1850. Mr. Clarkson was a man of deep and .uniform piety, and eminently diligent in the discharge of all his-duties. See: The Evangelical Magazine (Lond.), 1850, p. 705.<\/p>\n
Clarkson, Abraham an English Independent minister, was born at Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, in 1783. He was carefully trained in the Established Church; was converted at the age of twenty, and became a member of the Independent Church at Ossett in 1806. In April, 1811, he was admitted to the academy at Idle; the same year became … Continue reading “Clarkson, Abraham”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}