Crabtree, William

Crabtree, William an English Baptist minister, was born near Heptonstall, Yorkshire, March 20, 1806. He was baptized June 14, 1827, studied under the Reverend R. Ingham; after a year's service in Duffield, Derbyshire, was assistant minister, for a time, with Reverend J. Taylor, at Hinckley, Leicestershire, and then removed to Lineholm, in Yorkshire, where he died, May 9, 1854. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1855, page 47. (J.C.S.)