Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis

an English Baptist minister, was born at Andover, Hampshire, October 30, 1783. He was converted at thirteen years of age; baptized in London in 1802; began to preach at twenty, and became an evangelist in Ireland in 1816. He afterwards was the travelling agent of the Irish Baptist Society, and as such visited America in 1832 and 1833. In 1837 he located in London, and visited over England and Scotland as the advocate of the society till 1845, when gout obliged him to resign, and he continued to preach, as he had strength, till his death, February 3, 1856. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1856, page 47.