an English Congregational minister, was born at Bristol, May .23,1816. He was converted at the age of sixteen joined the Wesleyan Methodists, and, being fervent in spirit and active in disposition, soon became very prominent in the Sabbath school, "class," and prayer meetings,-and as preacher in the courts and alleys of the city, as well as. the villages around. Later he united with the Independents, was ordained at Salisbury, and afterwards preached at Stourbridge and afterwards at Cardiff, where he died, Feb. 28, .1873. Mr. Chester's life was unspotted, and his piety manifest to all. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1874, p. 318.