Josiah Pratt

Josiah Pratt (1768–1844) was born at Birmingham, England. He was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford and ordained as a deacon in 1792. During 1795–1804 he worked as an assistant minister under Richard Cecil at St. John’s Chapel, Bedford Row. He served 21 years as secretary (after Thomas Scott) to the Church Missionary Society. From 1804–1831 he became lecturer and assistant curate with John Newton at St. Mary Woolnoth. In 1826 he served as Vicar of St. Stephen’s, Coleman Street, London. He was active in promoting foreign missions work and helped form the British and Foreign Bible Society. He was part of the Eclectic society and started to publish the “Christian Observer.”