Samuel Brewer (dissenter)

When Brewer took over Stepney Meeting House, the congregation was quite small, but over the years he built it up.^[1] He was not sectarian maintaining friendly relations with Anglicans from the established church.^[1]

He was particularly friends with George Whitefield, and also very supportive to Samson Occom and Nathaniel Whitaker during their visit to London to raise money for a Christian church in New Hampshire in British Colonial America.^[1]

George Ford provided his funeral oration.^[3]

His grandson was the hymnist James Edmeston.^[4]