Born: 1752, Newport, Monmouthshire, England.
Died: August 24, 1817, Birmingham, England.
Buried: Ebenezer Chapel Cemetery, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, England.
Pseudonym: Sylvestris.
Brewer trained for a career in commerce, but became a congregational minister instead.
He began preaching at age 22, and pastored at Rodborough, Gloucestershire; Sheffield (1783); Carr’s Lane Chapel, Birmingham (1798); Rodborough Baptist Church (1799); and the Livery Street Chapel, Birmingham.
A memoir of him appeared in the Evangelical Register, 1835.
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