Ault, Horatio

Ault, Horatio, an English Congregational minister, was born at Uttoxeter, Nov. 9,1806. When about the age of twenty-four he joined the Independent Church at Lichfield, and began preaching in the neighboring villages. A few years. later Mr. Ault removed to Derby, where he devoted himself earnestly to Christ's service. In 1835 he removed to Repton, and in the following year was ordained. Here he labored twenty years. In 1854 he was invited to Kilsley, where he remained fourteen years, only leaving it when his health failed. His death occurred on June 4, 1871, at Scaldwell, near Northampton, where he had gone in 1868 for rest and recuperation. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1872, p. 304.