Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (born 1615)

Richard Baxter

17th-century English Puritan church leader and theologian

Richard Baxter was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his ministry at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, when he also…