Background
The son of John Child, a heckle-comb maker, and his wife Grace M"Kay, he was born at Arbroath on 10 December 1839, and brought up in the Free Church of Scotland.
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Education
After serving apprenticeship to a chemist, Child was employed by manufacturing chemists at Horncastle. There he joined the Congregationalists and, with a view to its ministry, studied at Airedale College (1862-1867).
Career
He was put under a relative at Darlington to learn tanning, but ran away. As a congregational minister he was at Castleford in the West Riding of Yorkshire (1867-1868), and Sittingbourne in Kent (1870). Reading the Appeal by Samuel Noble led Child to accept the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Child became his successor, and died on 23 March 1906.
Child married Louisa Hadkinson in October 1870.
