He married a Miss Reymes of Norwich, in 1752. She died in 1811.
In 1746, Stephen attended the academy of Dr. Philip Doddridge, whose manner in the pulpit he closely followed for many years. Stephen’s first charge was at Spaldwick in Huntingdonshire in Cambridgeshire. A few weeks after his marriage in 1752, he was called to pastor a congregation of dissenters at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, where he remained about thirty years.
In addition, in 1758, he began to take students to board in his home. For many years he devoted nine hours each day to the instruction of his pupils, and compiled books for their improvement, such as Arithmetic, Geographical Grammar and Greek Grammar textbooks.
In 1781, Stephen moved to London in order to take the charge of the congregation at Miles Lane, Cannon Street. He also became a tutor in 1783 at the new dissenting institution of Miles End Academy. He carried on these duties until he was afflicted with palsy and parasitic strokes which caused him to resign. He kept on with pastoral duties, caring for his congregation until a few months prior to his decease.
He married a Miss Reymes of Norwich, in 1752. She died in 1811.
In 1746, Stephen attended the academy of Dr. Philip Doddridge, whose manner in the pulpit he closely followed for many years. Stephen’s first charge was at Spaldwick in Huntingdonshire in Cambridgeshire. A few weeks after his marriage in 1752, he was called to pastor a congregation of dissenters at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, where he remained about thirty years.
In addition, in 1758, he began to take students to board in his home. For many years he devoted nine hours each day to the instruction of his pupils, and compiled books for their improvement, such as Arithmetic, Geographical Grammar and Greek Grammar textbooks.
In 1781, Stephen moved to London in order to take the charge of the congregation at Miles Lane, Cannon Street. He also became a tutor in 1783 at the new dissenting institution of Miles End Academy. He carried on these duties until he was afflicted with palsy and parasitic strokes which caused him to resign. He kept on with pastoral duties, caring for his congregation until a few months prior to his decease.
Inscription
In memory of Stephen Addington, D.D., thirty years Minister of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters, of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and fourteen years in Miles’s Lane, London. He died February 6th, 1796, aged 67 years - Conscious of his awful charge, and anxious mainly that the flock he fed might feel it too : affectionate in look, and tender in address, as well becomes a messenger of grace to guilty men.
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