valuable academical institution."[169] [165] "Bonn's Standard Library," p. 305. [166] Rotherham and Masbro' are one town, only separated by the River Rother. [167] "Masbro' Chapel Manual" for 1881, whence many of these particulars are taken. See also Miall's "Congregationalism in Yorkshire." [168] Dr. Edward Williams became president in 1795. He edited the works of Jonathan Edwards, and was the author of a once famous controversial treatise on "Divine Equity and Sovereignty." [169] "Crispin Anecdotes," p. 18. Thorp was regularly ordained to the pastorate, and a chapel was built for his ministry, where he preached till his death, at the age of fifty-two, 8th November, 1776. He was a friend of the pious and eccentric John Berridge,[170] Vicar of Everton, who gave his watch to Thorp as a token of esteem. John Thorp's son, William, was a far more famous preacher than his father, and held a conspicuous place at the beginning of this century as pastor of the Castle Green Church, Bristol. Representatives of the family belonging to a _third_ and _fourth_ generation of preachers still hold an honorable position as Established or Free Church ministers. [170] "Crispin Anecdotes," p. 18. WILLIAM HUNTINGDON, S.S., CALVINISTIC METHODIST PREACHER. One of the most eloquent and famous preachers in London at the close of the last century and the beginning of the present, when eloquent and famous preachers were by no means rare, was _William Huntingdon_, whose portrait may be seen in the National Portrait Gallery, South Kensington, London. Huntingdon's father was a farm laborer in Kent named Hunt. How the name Hunt grew into the more dignified Huntingdon (or Huntington) we cannot tell; probably through some whim of his own, for this eccentric man took liberties with his name, as the reader will see presently. He seems to have combined shoemaking with his other avocations, for one notice speaks of him as by turns hostler, gardener, cobbler, and coal-heaver.[171] He was not favored with any early education, but by careful self-culture of his first-rate natural gifts acquired the rare art of speaking with an ease and elegance and force that pleased all sorts of hearers. Long after he had begun to attract crowds by his eloquence he worked for his daily bread as a cobbler. Many a sermon was made with his work on his lap and a Bible on the chair beside him. A chapel was built for his ministry in Tichfield Street, London, and when it proved too small, the congregation moved to a larger building erected in Gray's Inn Road. [171] "Imperial Dictionary of Biography," vol. iv. Edinburgh: Blackie & Son.