Joseph Crompton (1813/14–78)

Clergyman. MA, University of Glasgow, 1834. Unitarian minister at the Octagon in Norwich, 1839–52. Founder and minister of the Free Christian Church. President of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 1869–71. Joined the Church of England, 1875. Curate of St Mary-at-Coslany with St Michael-at-Pleas, Norwich, 1872–6; rector of St Lawrence, Norwich, from 1876.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Crockford’s clerical directory 1878

Roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow

Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society 1 (1869–74).