Bulgin, Samuel

Bulgin, Samuel an English Baptist minister, was born at Atworth, near Melksham, Wiltshire, March 23, 1780. After his conversion he removed to Bath and united with a Church of the countess of Huntingdon's connection, and became a zealous preacher. In 1804, having joined a Baptist Church, he engaged in ministerial work for several years, and was ordained pastor of the Church at Poole, June 22, 1808, where he remained forty-six years, during which time one hundred and eighty-three persons were added to his Church. In 1853 he resigned, and preaching occasionally, as opportunity presented, he was engaged in his loved vocation until the last. His death occurred at Swantage, whither he had gone to fulfil an engagement, June 24,1854. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1856. p. 45. (J. C. S.)