Rev. George Cosens during later pastorate at Cradley Heath
Rev. George Cosens (1805–1881) is the "first reported West Indian minister to hold a pastorate in Britain."[1] He originated from Jamaica, and lived most of his life in Britain having moved to London to study and joining the Primitive Methodists in his late teens. After working as a Primitive Methodist preacher, he joined the Baptists and from 1837 served as a minister in various Baptist churches. He died in working retirement in 1881. George Cosens married twice, Mary Burnet, 1830, and being widowed, Betsy Dancer in 1841. He is buried in the cemetery of Brierley Hill Baptist Church.
^Baptist union of Great Britain, BUGB Magazine, September October 2006
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and New York: Houghton Mifflin Press, ISBN 978-0-618-13384-0. Kennedy, George A. (1943). "Amin" . In Hummel, Arthur W. Sr. (ed.). Eminent Chinese of the...
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"Frederick George Coppins". National Defence and the Canadian Forces. Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2012. "Sgt. Aubrey Cosens – Veterans...
February 1910. Retrieved 22 April 2021. Collins, Delyse (1990). "Spencer, Cosens". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian...
James Fleming Boyd, Deputy Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue. Alexander Cosens Lindsay Brown, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries...
time, and makes reference to the Slave Trade Act of 1807. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster, writing as Harry Collingwood, wrote four novels about the same...
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