Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward, was born in 1786 at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. While practising as a solicitor at Norwich he was ordained in 1815 as a deacon in the Church. The following year he went to Africa for the Church Missionary Society, and until 1830, when he was appointed rector of Watton, Hertfordshire, he was the society's secretary. He was also one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance. His best-known works are The Scripture Help, The Christian Student, and The Lord's Supper, The Restoration of the Jews, etc. He was also the editor of the Christian Family Library. He died in 1850.