Caleb Ashworth
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Caleb Ashworth | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1722 |
| Died | 18 July 1775 (aged 52–53) |
| Children | 3 sons and daughters |
Caleb Ashworth, D.D. (1722 – 18 July 1775) was an English dissenting tutor.
Ashworth was born in Cloughfold in 1722.[1] His father, Richard Ashworth, who died in 1751, aged 84, was a lay preacher among the Particular Baptists; he had three sons—Thomas, Particular Baptist minister at Heckmondwike; Caleb; and John, a General Baptist minister, colleague of Dr. James Foster, who preached his funeral sermon in 1742.
Caleb Ashworth was originally a carpenter; he probably was not in sympathy with his father's views, and thus did not at first turn to the ministry. He was afterwards educated for the independent ministry, under Philip Doddridge, at Northampton, where he first took up his quarters in 1739; and settled at Daventry in 1746, originally as assistant to James Floyd.
Under Doddridge's will, the management of the academy was left to Ashworth, and, as the Northampton congregation did not elect him their minister, he moved it to Daventry in 1752 (see Daventry Academy). He obtained the degree of D.D. from Scotland in 1759. He died on 18 July 1775.
