William Urwick

William Urwick (1791–1868), the elder, was an English Congregational minister and author, for most of his life in Ireland. He was known in Dublin as the "little giant".

Life The son of William Urwick by his wife, Elinor Eddowes, he had Thomas Urwick as great-uncle and was born in Shrewsbury on 8 December 1791. He was educated at Worcester under Thomas Belsher, and in 1812 entered Hoxton Academy to study for the Congregational ministry under Robert Simpson. A Voice from an Outpost, two discourses on the "papal aggression", 1850. China, two lectures, 1854. Earth's Rulers Judged, on the death of Nicholas I of Russia, 1855. History of Dublin, for the Religious Tract Society.

Family On 16 June 1818 Urwick married Sarah (d. 1852), daughter of Thomas and Mary Cooke of Shrewsbury. They had ten children, five dying young.