Owen Johnson Birt
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Owen Johnson Birt [1]
an English Baptist minister, son of Rev. Caleb Birt, was born at Derby, May 30, 1821. He was converted when about seventeen years of age, and joined the Church at Broadmead, Bristol, in March, 1838. In 1839 he entered the Baptist College, in Bristol, where he remained from 1839 to 1842. In October of the latter year he was accepted by the committee of the Baptist Missionary Society for service in Ceylon. He was so feeble that he died at sea, March 14, 1844. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1844, p. 21, 22. (J.C.S.)
