Crisp, Thomas S, Dd

Crisp, Thomas S., D.D.

an English Baptist minister, was born at Beccles, Suffolk, in 1788. He received his education in an Independent college and in one of the Scotch universities; became teacher in the Baptist College, Bristol; in 1818 was associated with Reverend Dr. Ryland as pastor there; and upon the death of the latter was elected president of the college. He died at Cotham, Bristol, June 16, 1868. His scholarship is said to have been of a superior character, although he was singularly diffident. See Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia, 8:594; Cathcart, Baptist. Encyclop. s.v. (J.C.S.)