12 Facts About Joshua Toulmin

On graduating from Wellclose Square Dissenting Academy, now Reverend Joshua Toulmin became the Presbyterian minister of his first congregation at Colyton, a civil parish located within east Devonshire.

Now an antipaedobaptist, Joshua Toulmin began to advocate adult baptism and to theologically oppose infant baptism.

In 1765, at the age of twenty-five, Joshua Toulmin transferred himself to his second congregation at Taunton, in Somersetshire, as a Baptist minister.

In 1778, Joshua Toulmin wrote to Rev Robert Robinson of Cambridge requesting copies of Robinson's lectures on nonconformity to use as a guide for Joshua Toulmin's own lectures.

Somewhere along the way, Joshua Toulmin's beliefs changed again from Baptist to Unitarian.

In January 1804, at age sixty-four, Joshua Toulmin moved to Birmingham, England and accepted a position as one of the pastors of the Birmingham Unitarian congregation, formerly presided over by the co-discover of oxygen, Joseph Priestley.

Between 1809 and 1811, Joshua Toulmin lived in Birmingham on Paradise Row, and he died there on 23 July 1815, at the age of seventy-five.

Joshua Toulmin initially was buried in the Old Meeting graveyard in Birmingham.

Joshua Toulmin's tombstone was moved to the borough cemetery at Witton in 1886.

At the time of his death, Joshua Toulmin had a plan for an annuitant society for the benefit of widows.

Dr Joshua Toulmin was a prolific writer, and is known to have written over sixty publications in the areas of religion and spirituality, history, parenting and families, reference, and nonfiction.

Joshua Toulmin occasionally contributed to the Theological Repository, The Nonconformists' Memorial, The Monthly Magazine, and other periodical publications.