Jamaica’s religious future debated by Granville ministry
A parliamentary despatch discusses reforms to Jamaica’s churches, endorsing state aid to multiple denominations, shift away from endowment, and possible government establishment of missions where needed. It notes Baptist funding struggles and argues for a fair, results-based support plan with Church of England inclusion.
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Jamaica
England
Church of England
British Islands
West Indies
Church Missionary Societies
Earl Granville
Baptists
Debate on Jamaica church disestablishment and funding
The correspondence discusses a plan to propagate Christianity among uninstructed populations in Jamaica through denominational aid, the need for broad concurrence, and the challenges of funding from general taxes. If consensus fails, disestablishment and endowment issues loom, with pensions for clergy considered. Grange Granville’s 1869 despatch remains unpublished.
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Jamaica
Church of England
Kingston
Earl Granville
J. Grant
Cambridge University splits over religious tests reform
A cambridge memorial signed by 116 residents heads and officers urges abolition of religious tests for university offices and fellowships. The counter declaration to Gladstone resists relaxing tests unless chapel worship remains protected, proposing noncompulsory chapel attendance for Nonconformists.
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University of Cambridge
Senate
Council of the Senate
Gladstone
Church of England
St. John's