Crosby, Thomas (1)

Crosby, Thomas (1)

an English Baptist historian, was born about 1700. For some time he was at the head of an institution for the education of boys. He was a deacon of the Church of which Dr. Gill was pastor. His great work was his History of English Baptists,from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of George I (Lond. 1738-40, 4 volumes, 8vo). See Haynes, Baptist Cyclop. page 168. (J.C.S.)