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.

• Julian, p. 181
• Wright, pp. 260-61

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