Samuel Bourn
English dissenting minister (1714–1796)
Samuel Bourn (1714–1796) was an English Dissenter minister.
Bourn was the third Samuel Bourn and a second son of Samuel Bourn the Younger, and his wife, Hannah Harrison, a widow, née Hannah Taylor of Kendal. His grandfather was Samuel Bourn the elder.
He was educated at Stand Grammar School, Lancashire, and the University of Glasgow. In 1742 he became dissenting minister of Rivington, Lancashire, where he enjoyed the friendship of Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham. In 1754 Bourn moved to Norwich to assist the Presbyterian minister John Taylor, who three years later left for Warrington Academy.
Life
He was born at Crook near Kendal, and educated at Stand Grammar School and the University of Glasgow where he studied under Francis Hutcheson and John Simson. In 1742 he settled in the ministry at Rivington, Lancashire, where he enjoyed the friendship of Hugh, 15th Lord Willoughby of Parham, who lived at Shaw Place, near Rivington, and was the representative of the last of the Presbyterian noble families. He was a fundamental scripturalist, a Bible Protestant, who relied solely on the witness of the New Testament in matter of doctrine and ethics.
Bourn was not ordained till some years after his settlement.
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