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JAY, WILLIAM (1769-1853)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 296 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JAY, WILLIAM (1769-1853) , English Nonconformist divine, was born at Tisbury in Wiltshire on the 6th of May 1769. He adopted his father's
trade
  of stone-mason, but gave it up in 1785 in order to enter the Rev. Cornelius Winter's school at Marlborough. During the three years that Jay spent there, his preaching
powers
  were rapidly developed. Before he was twenty-one he had preached nearly a thousand times, and in 1788 he had for a while occupied Rowland Hill's pulpit in London. Wishing to continue his
reading
  he accepted the humble pastor-ate of Christian Malford, near Chippenham, where he remained about two years. After one year at
Hope
  chapel, Clifton, he was called to the ministry of Argyle Independent chapel in Bath; and on the 3oth of January 1791 he began the
work
  of his
life
  there, attracting hearers of every religious denomination and of every rank, and winning for himself a wide reputation as a brilliant pulpit orator, an
earnest
  religious author, and a friendly counsellor. Sheridan declared him to be the most manly orator he had ever heard. A
long
  and honourable connexion of sixty-two years came to an end in January 1853, and he died on the 27th of December following.
The best-known of Jay's works are his Morning and Evening Exercises: The Christian contemplated: The Domestic Minister's Assistant; and his Discourses. He also wrote a
Life
  of Rev. Cornelius Winter, and Memoirs of Rev. John
Clarke
 . An edition of Jay's Works in.12 vols., 8vo, revised by himself, was issued in 1842-1844, and again in 1856. A new edition, in 8 vols., 8vo, was published in 1876. See Autobiography (1854); S. Wilson's Memoir of Jay (1854); S. Newth in Pulpit Memorials (1878).


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