His father, John Sturch, was ordained on 21 June 1753 and ministered to the Pyle Street congregation at Newport, Isle of Wight. He wrote A View of the Isle of Wight, 1778, which passed through several editions, and was translated into German by C. A. Wichman, Leipzig, 1781.
William Sturch came from a long line of General Baptist ministers. His great-grandfather, William Sturch (died 1728), ministered in London. He died in 1794.
William Sturch was born at Newport about 1753.
He became an ironmonger in London, and an original member in 1774 of the Unitarian Essex Street Chapel opened by Theophilus Lindsey.
He took the chair at a dinner given in London (5 January 1829) to Henry Montgomery, Doctor of Laws, when Charles Butler was one of the speakers. He died at York Terrace, Regent"s Park, on 8 September 1838, aged 85, leaving a widow Elizabeth (died 23 February 1841, aged 81) and family.
He was buried in the graveyard of the New Gravel-Pit chapel, Hackney.
