Grantham Killingworth

Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist.

A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51).

Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich.

Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against Thomas Emlyn; in favour of adult baptism, against John Taylor, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley. His publications include:

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "". Dictionary of National Biography. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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