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He was born in Clifton, Bristol. His father was a baker of Huguenot descent.
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He was born in Clifton, Bristol. His father was a baker of Huguenot descent.
He then studied at Cheshunt College, and Trinity College, Dublin.
A reputed preacher of his time, he was called "the Dickens of the pulpit" by John Ross Dix. This chapel was in the Countess of Huntingdon"s Connexion derived from the Calvinistic Methodists. In 1823 the congregation came under William Lucy, and shortly migrated to the Lodge Street Chapel.
Reading Micaiah Towgood dissuaded him from going to the University of Cambridge.
He returned to Cheshunt College as a tutor, from 1838 to 1850. Under the initial arrangement he taught mathematics, logic, and belles lettres, for two periods of six weeks in a year.
From 1832 Sortain was the Countess of Huntingdon"s preacher at her North Street Chapel in Brighton, where he was admired as an orator, and noted for not exceeding 30 minutes. He held to the dissenting position of his family, though he was known not to differ much from Anglican theological positions.
Sortain died on 16 July 1860.
His reputation lapsed, and he could be called a "forgotten Bristol celebrity" by 1907. Sortain married Bridget Margaret, daughter of Sir Patrick Macgregor, 1st Baronet. She published Memorials of the Review
Joseph Sortain in 1861.
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