Crisp, Joseph Hemus

Crisp, Joseph Hemus an English Congregational minister, was born at Nottingham, June 17, 1782. He was converted at nineteen; became class-leader and local preacher in the New Connection Methodist Church; and in 1804 was called to the regular ministry, being appointed first at Hull, and afterwards at. Dewsbury. In 1807 he entered the Independent College at Idle, and in 1810 became pastor of the Congregational Church at Brighouse, near Halifax. He retired to Ashby-dela-Zouch in 1840, and there died, January 12, 1869. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1810, page 282.