{"id":1397,"count":1,"description":"Albert Steele (1843-1907) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. In 1898, he was appointed pastor of Spa-road Baptist Chapel at Bermondsey, succeeding the late J. L. Meeres. Prior to this work, he served as deacon at Keppel Street Chapel between the years 1879 and 1888, under the pastoral ministry of William Styles. He served as auditor to the Metropolitan Association of Strict Baptist Churches. He was a member of the Sacred Harmonic Society, not only assisting the Triennial Handel Festivals at the Crystal Palace, but also invited with others to Windsor Castle in the audience of Queen Victoria. He worked at the British Museum, responsible for the artifact descriptions. This brought him into contact with many leading scholars of his time\u2014George Smith, Roderick Murchison and Dr. Birch. \r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/albert-steele\/","name":"Albert Steele","slug":"albert-steele","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}