Life
A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51). [1] [2]
Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich. [1]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Killingworth, Grantham". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.