Thomas Brand (minister)
Thomas Brand (1635–1691) was an English nonconformist minister and divine.
Life
Brand was the son of the rector of Leaden Roothing, Essex. He was educated at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and Merton College, Oxford. There he studied law, and later entered the Temple.
An acquaintance with
He continued at Staplehurst until driven away by persecution. After wanderings he settled near London. He built many meeting-houses, and contributed to their ministers' salaries. He gave away thousands of catechisms and other books, and reprinted twenty thousand of Joseph Alleine's Treatise on Conversion to be given away, altering the title to a Guide to Heaven. He and his friends sold bibles under cost price to all who desired them, provided they did not sell them again. Brand supported children of poor parents, and put them to trades. Jabez Earle, minister of the presbyterian congregation in Hanover Street, London, was one of his protégés. Brand said he ‘would not sell his estate because it was entailed, but he would squeeze it as long as he lived.’
Brand died 1 December 1691, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.
References
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
.- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Brand, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- Hutchinson, John (1902). . A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 29.