Background
Ash was born in Dorset about 1724.
Ash was born in Dorset about 1724.
He studied for the ministry at Bristol, under Bernard Foskett, became pastor at Loughwood Meeting House, a Baptist chapel in Dorset, and while there contributed to periodicals. He obtained a degree of Doctor of Laws from a Scottish university in 1774, and died at Pershore in March or April 1779, aged 55.
He settled in the ministry at Pershore in 1746, as the result of a compromise between different parties in the congregation.