Disestablishment Lectures Highlight Clash Over Church State
A series of meetings led by J H Gordon and other speakers debated the Established Church and Disestablishment. Clergy and Liberations supporters, with chairs including Harlow and Pryce, urged ending state patronage while opponents defended church property and status. Attendees included Dissenters, local ministers, and Liberation Society figures across multiple towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Gordon
Harlow
Ae i Bagnor
T. P
R. Vaughan Pryce
M. A
J. Henshelwood
T. G. Swindell
Moser Townshend
Pugh
Munt
Joseland
Cosford
Airey
Day
Gordon
Rowthorn
Oithorn
Mr. Townshend
Bright
Birmingham
Geo. Hastings
The
Liberation Society
Grisham Gordon
Gresham
Jan
Pryce
Worcester
Iain
Oddfellows’s Hall
Gill
Non Osely
G. D. Evans
Baptist Chapel
J Greenhough
Yams
Fisher
W. Nortis
J. B. Heard
Wictow
All Saints,Pinner
Colston Hall
G. Leonard
D. A. Bassett
Townshend
G. Fisher
Church of England
Hear
J. Fisher
Richard Glover
C. Townsend
Disestablishment From the Ritualist Viewpoint
From the Church Times Jan 29 an argument frames disestablishment as unlikely to alter the settlement. It warns of formidable dissent across denominations, Irish and Scottish clergy, and political pressure and offers schemes to reendow and reorganize Church services and schools under a disestablished system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Times
Miall
England
Ireland
Church of England
Scotland
Providence
William Baird
Ellicott
Fraser
Ellicotts and Thomsons
House of Lords
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Farnworth
Brooke Herford
Manchester
Nonconformist Association
W. Hewgill
G. 8. Ordish
Little Lever
Alfred Topp
Esq
J.P
Joseph Winter
Samuel Winter
Timothy Morrow
Martin McCormick
W. T. Raynor
J. Kenyon
W. Cooper
J. L. Topp
J. W. Watkinson
Mr. Herford
G. S. Ordish
Liberal Party
NantTwich
Nantwich Town Hall
Harwood Pattison
Rochdale
America
James Wood
Willaston
R. P. Cook
J. B. Broadrick
P. Barker
Pattison
Heywood
J. McDougall
Darwen
David Smith
Botton
Marmaduke Miller
Bolton
West Houghton
David Crossley
David Crossley Occupied the Chair. Mr. Miller