ALAN ARGENT is Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Library, London and minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Brixton. He has edited The Angels' Voice for the London Record Society and is the author of The Richard Baxter Treatises (Boydell, 2018).

Dr Williams's Trust and Library is one of the most significant and important dissenting trusts and institutions. This meticulous work of scholarship is therefore to be warmly welcomed, both for its account of the Trust's stewardship and for the mirror that their stewardship offers to over three centuries of British dissent.

• Prologue1 Dr Williams and his Will2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721-31 - Faith, Fitness and Diligence3 Constructing the Library Building 1725-30 - A Proper Plan4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731-47 - Piety and Charity5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748-62 - Liberty and Liberal Dissent6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762-95 - A Very Respectable Body7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795-1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850-57 - Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857-93 - The Scrupulous Observer9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886-1914 - Introducing Order10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914-25 - Application and Imagination11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925-46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925-44 - A New Age with Old Strains12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944-66 and Librarian 1946-66 - Trusted Innovator13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966-76 - Modest Dependability14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977-98 - Mixed Blessings15 David Wykes, Director 1998-2021 - Past, Present and Future16 Dr Williams's Trust - An AssessmentAppendix 1 Trustees in 1723Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions)BibliographyIndex

ALAN ARGENT is Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Library, London and minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Brixton. He has edited The Angels' Voice for the London Record Society and is the author of The Richard Baxter Treatises (Boydell, 2018).

Dr Williams's Trust and Library is one of the most significant and important dissenting trusts and institutions. This meticulous work of scholarship is therefore to be warmly welcomed, both for its account of the Trust's stewardship and for the mirror that their stewardship offers to over three centuries of British dissent.

• Prologue1 Dr Williams and his Will2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721-31 - Faith, Fitness and Diligence3 Constructing the Library Building 1725-30 - A Proper Plan4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731-47 - Piety and Charity5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748-62 - Liberty and Liberal Dissent6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762-95 - A Very Respectable Body7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795-1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850-57 - Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857-93 - The Scrupulous Observer9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886-1914 - Introducing Order10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914-25 - Application and Imagination11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925-46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925-44 - A New Age with Old Strains12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944-66 and Librarian 1946-66 - Trusted Innovator13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966-76 - Modest Dependability14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977-98 - Mixed Blessings15 David Wykes, Director 1998-2021 - Past, Present and Future16 Dr Williams's Trust - An AssessmentAppendix 1 Trustees in 1723Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions)BibliographyIndex

ALAN ARGENT is Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Library, London and minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Brixton. He has edited The Angels' Voice for the London Record Society and is the author of The Richard Baxter Treatises (Boydell, 2018).

Dr Williams's Trust and Library is one of the most significant and important dissenting trusts and institutions. This meticulous work of scholarship is therefore to be warmly welcomed, both for its account of the Trust's stewardship and for the mirror that their stewardship offers to over three centuries of British dissent.

• Prologue1 Dr Williams and his Will2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721-31 - Faith, Fitness and Diligence3 Constructing the Library Building 1725-30 - A Proper Plan4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731-47 - Piety and Charity5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748-62 - Liberty and Liberal Dissent6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762-95 - A Very Respectable Body7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795-1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850-57 - Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857-93 - The Scrupulous Observer9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886-1914 - Introducing Order10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914-25 - Application and Imagination11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925-46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925-44 - A New Age with Old Strains12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944-66 and Librarian 1946-66 - Trusted Innovator13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966-76 - Modest Dependability14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977-98 - Mixed Blessings15 David Wykes, Director 1998-2021 - Past, Present and Future16 Dr Williams's Trust - An AssessmentAppendix 1 Trustees in 1723Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions)BibliographyIndex