David Denham was a son of the above Thomas Denham, and was born April 12th, 1791. At the early age of eight years he was obliged to go out into the world as an errand boy, &c., and suffered great privations. He was afterwards placed apprentice to a glass cutter. When he was about eighteen years of age, he became a teacher in the Sunday School, belonging to the Rev. Rowland Hill’s Chapel, in Blackfriars Road. Subsequently, he was baptized, and commenced a preacher; first at Gainsford Street, Southwark, then at Horsell, in Surrey; from thence he removed to Reading, then to Bath: and after a while to Willow Street Chapel, Plymouth, where for a time he was exceedingly popular; insomuch that the preacher was…

With the present Number of the Gospel Magazine our readers are presented with a portrait of the Rev. David Denham, of Unicorn Yard Chapel, Tooley Street, for the use of which we are indebted to him, and take the present opportunity of acknowledging the favour; at the same time we respectfully solicit a similar privilege from such really Gospel ministers, either in or out of the Establishment, as may have their own copper-plates by them, or portraits from which our artists may copy. In allusion to the subject of our present portrait, it is perhaps needful to state, that in speaking of a living minister, at least some degree of delicacy is requisite, otherwise we should expose ourselves to the charge of flattery, which would…