. The Calls of Norfolk and Suffolk : their Paston connections and descendants. o that the meeting room was nick-named the snuff-box. The first Independent minister of this congregation was theRev. Richard Knill, who was born at Braunton, Cornwall, on the14th April 1787. He was first a missionary in India, and on his returnto England in 1820 he was invited by the London Missionary Societyto go to Russia to carry on a work previously begun by Dr. Patersonin Finland and Russia. Mr. Knill was a very remarkable man. Hismemoirs and correspondence, by Mr. Charles M. Birrell of Edge Hill,Liverpool, wi
. The Calls of Norfolk and Suffolk : their Paston connections and descendants. o that the meeting room was nick-named the snuff-box. The first Independent minister of this congregation was theRev. Richard Knill, who was born at Braunton, Cornwall, on the14th April 1787. He was first a missionary in India, and on his returnto England in 1820 he was invited by the London Missionary Societyto go to Russia to carry on a work previously begun by Dr. Patersonin Finland and Russia. Mr. Knill was a very remarkable man. Hismemoirs and correspondence, by Mr. Charles M. Birrell of Edge Hill,Liverpool, with a character sketch by the Rev. John Angell James,contain much information relating to the condition of Russia at thatperiod, and of those associated with him in the early rehgious workbegun in Russia under the encouragement and support of the EmperorAlexander i. (To this interesting book the editor would draw theattention of his readers.) Mr. Knill left Russia on the outbreak of the first great choleraepidemic of 1831, intending to return, but his labours were so greatly. REV. JOHN D. KILBURN REV. MR. KEY ()
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