Background
Shrubsole was born at Sandwich, Kent, on 7 April 1729.
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William Shrubsole
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In February 1743 he was apprenticed to George Cook, a shipwright at Sheerness, whose daughter he married in 1757.
Career
After reading a work of Isaac Ambrose, he grew religious, and in 1752 was asked to conduct the devotions of a small body which met at Sheerness on Sunday afternoons. In 1763 this congregation built a meeting-house, and Shrubsole frequently acted as their minister. About 1767 he undertook regular public preaching in Sheerness and other towns in Kent.
In 1773 Shrubsole was appointed master-mastmaker at Woolwich, but later in the year received promotion at Sheerness.
In 1784 a new chapel was built for him at Sheerness, which was enlarged in 1787. In 1793 Shrubsole had a paralytic stroke.
Because of Shrubsole’s infirmity, he and the Sheerness congregation agreed to appoint Charles Buck as his co-pastor. Shrubsole declined further promotion in the dockyard, on the ground that it might interfere with his preaching engagements.
He died at Sheerness on 7 February 1797.
All the people in Sheerness experienced “a mighty movement of sorrow” when they learned of his death
He was one of the first secretaries of the London Missionary Society, and contributed hymns to publications from 1775 to 1813. But is not connected with William Shrubsole the composer.
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English