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Winterbotham

William Winterbotham (1763–1829), British Baptist minister and a political prisoner



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Giles Rooke

At the next Exeter assizes he prosecuted to conviction William Winterbotham, a dissenting minister at Plymouth, for preaching sermons of a revolutionary tendency; and on 13 November of the same year was appointed to the puisne judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas, left vacant by the death of John Wilson.