Daniel Fisher (1731 - 1807)

Born 1731 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England

Died 14 Aug 1807 at about age 76 in Hackney, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Daniel Fisher was born in Cumberland, England.

Daniel was a student at the Dissenting Academy at Homerton

Daniel was a student at the Plaisterers Hall Dissenting Academy

Daniel was a tutor at Dissenting Academy at Homerton

Daniel was a nonconformist minister

Daniel Fisher is Notable.

Daniel was born in 1731 and was christened the son of Samuel Fisher on the 20th July 1731 at St Cuthberts Church, Low Lorton, Cockermouth, Cumberland.^[1]

From 1748 to 1751 he attended Plaisterers' Hall Academy in London, which was a dissenting academy that provided for the training of Congregational ministers in the Calvinist tradition, and in 1752 he accepted an invitation to minister to the Independent congregation at Common Close in Warminster, Wiltshire. While in Warminster, he ran a school.^[2]

Daniel was included in the Dissenting Academy at Homerton 'Address to the Members of the Society for educating of young men for the Work of the Ministry', published in 1812, and was shown as "chosen on the 11th December 1770 to be classical and resident tutor.

In 1771 he was appointed the resident tutor in classics and mathematics at Homerton College. Following the death of John Conder D.D. (1714-1781) in 1781 he was appointed theology tutor, from 1781 to 1803. He was a rigid Calvinist and staunch dissenter. His students included Ezekiel Blomfield (1778-1818).

View of the Independent Academy, at Homerton, near Hackney

Daniel was listed as a supporter of the Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the poor in the 1779 report which the charity published. The report recorded him as Rev Dr Daniel Fisher, Homerton and that he had been a supporter since 1772^[3].

In 1785 Daniel was named as one of the 26 dissenting ministers who had signed a letter in support of Thomas Towle (abt.1724-1806) in his dispute with Alexander Hogg (1752-1809), printer and publisher. Hogg responded with a letter of rebuke and humiliation to Rev. Thomas Towle and a word of advice to the other signatories. For more details see Thomas Towle (abt.1724-1806)’s profile. ^[4].

In 1788 William Gordon published History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States and he was one of the subscribers to the book, listed as The Rev Daniel Fisher D. D. Hackney ^[5]

On the 4th January 1803 Daniel requested of the 'Society for educating young men for the work of the Ministry' and the 'King's Head Society' that on account of his advanced age and increasing infirmities, he might be permitted to resign his office of divinity tutor at the Homerton Academy. The Rev. James Knight succeeded him and Daniel resigned his office at the midsummer following, it being thirty-two years and a half since he entered that Academy as classical tutor.^[6]

He died at Hackney, Middlesex on 14 August 1807 after a lingering illness, in which he lost the use of all his faculties. Two funeral sermons were preached on the occasion, one of which, by the Rev. Samuel Palmer (1741-1813), was published under the title of The General Union of Believers (1807). Fisher was buried at Bunhill Fields burial ground in Islington, Middlesex.^[7]

Daniel was included in the Dissenting Academy at Homerton list, published in 1812, of Ministers who had been educated there, and was shown as Daniel Fisher, under the patronage of the Fund Board, (D.D. & Tutor) settled at Warminster'.

His obituary in the Sacred Reminiscences of Bunhill Fields stated

He was the sometime pastor of a church of Christ in Warminster, Wilts; afterwards he successively filled the important departments of classical and theological tutor in the Protestant Dissenters Academy at Homerton: the duties of these stations he performed with distinguished fidelity and success, during a period of more than fifty years. ^[8]

See also

Dissenting Academies Online^[9]

Research Note

This profile was originally created by the History of Nonconformists in London, England and surrounding counties topic team.

Sources

1. ↑ Cumberland : Low Lorton : St Cuthbert : Other Transcript : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5f650d59f493fd3552e8eb4d : viewed 30 Jan 2022) baptism Daniel Fisher 20 Jul 1731
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Fisher_(minister)
3. ↑ Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor
4. ↑ Hogg, A., Towle, T. (1785). A familiar letter of reproof and humiliation to ... T. Towle ... on his ... conduct repecting the publisher and publication of ... the New Spiritual Magazine ... To which is prefixed an introduction, including ... a sketch of the dialogue which passed between Mr. Towle and Mr. Hogg in ... 1783 ... The whole revised ... by a clergyman of the established Church ... with a head of Mr. Towle, etc. United Kingdom: (n.p.). Accessed from Google Books https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_familiar_letter_of_reproof_and_humilia/7sBlAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thomas+towle+cripplegate&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover Accessed by Trevor Pickup on 10th March 2022
5. ↑ Gordon, William. History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States (New-York, 1801)
6. ↑ Dissenting Academy at Homerton 'Address to the Members of the Society for educating of young men for the Work of the Ministry', published in 1812
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Fisher_(minister)
8. ↑ Jones, John Andrews. Bunhill Memorials, Sacred Reminiscences of Three Hundred Ministers (James Paul, London, 1849)
9. ↑ https://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/sample1.php?detail=people&personid=1007&parameter=&alpha=