ABSTRACT
William Huntington had little formal education, and worked for a time as a coal-heaver. Following a dramatic conversion experience in a Surrey garden, he began to preach and in 1782 moved to London where, until his death, he preached to congregations numbering about 2,000. William Steadman combined his duties as president of the newly formed Horton Academy with the pastoral oversight of Bradford Particular Baptist Church and an extensive village preaching itinerary. In 1816 Robert Hall entered the long-running debate among Particular Baptists on the terms of admission to church membership and to the Lord's Supper by advocating that membership and participation at the Lord's Table should be open to both Baptists and non-Baptists. The Beacon controversy of the 1830s was a symptom of the impact of Evangelicalism on the Society of Friends. Isaac Crewdson, a Manchester textile manufacturer and a Quaker minister, embraced an Evangelical faith after a severe illness.
