A band of maiden pilgrims

Author: T. Goadby

Goadby, Thomas, an elder brother of the [Frederick William Goadby], was born at Leicester, Dec. 23, 1829. He studied for the ministry at the Baptist College, Leicester, and at Glasgow University, where he graduated B.A. in 1856; was successively pastor of Baptist churches in Coventry, London, and Derby. In 1873 he was appointed President of Chilwell College, now the "Nottingham Baptist College." Mr. Goadby has contributed many papers to newspapers, reviews, and other periodicals, and has published several sermons and addresses delivered on public occasions from 1860 to 1881. In 1884 he published Revelation, its Nature and Record, translated from the German of Ewald. His compositions in verse are a short poem, entitled The Day of Death 1863,… Go to person page >