Debates on Civil vs Church Marriage Practices in 19th Century Britain
A discussion on marriage patterns shows 74 percent of couples wed in church in 1875, down from 87 percent in 1849. The piece argues civil marriages provide stronger safeguards and notes that many couples are married in registry offices or by civil contract, with extensive public records and strict oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Church of St. Pancras
St. Mary’s, Lambeth
Manchester
Banus
Graham
St Thomas's Hospital Estates Deny Sectarian Motives
A letter from a council member and Nonconformist asserts no sectarian discrimination in estate management. The correspondent recounts farm leasing to serve hospital interests and notes a Wesleyan request for land for chapels and schools was considered and approved, urging governors to remain unsectarian in policy and property trust.
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St. Thomas’s Hospital
Toller
Cherry Hinton
The Confessional Question Public Meeting in Exeter Hall
A Church Association meeting in Exeter Hall protested auricular confession in the Church of England. Chairman T R Andrews led a crowded event with politicians and clergy on the platform, including Sir T Chambers M P and Archdeacon Hunter, and the audience showed strong feelings as the evening began.
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Church Association
Exeter Hall
Church of England
T. R. Andrews
Association
T. Chambers
Q A
M.P
E Greene
M. Holt
Archdeacon Hunter
C. N. Newdegate
Protests Against Auricular Confession Stir London Meeting
The chairman recalled anti confessional rallies in London from twenty years ago and Lord Shaftesbury’s presidency of a newer gathering. Resolutions urged the Queen and Parliament to curb auricular confession, denounced as spiritual torture, with bishops pressed to act and Protestant unity emphasized at the Surrey Clerical and Lay Association conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Shaftesbury
T. Chambers
Church of England
Greene
Newdegate
Church Association
Surrey Clerical and Lay Association
Dorking
Viscount Midleton
Church Congress
Croydon
Canon Garbett
Surbiton
Society of the Holy Cross
Canterbury
Salisbury
Harding
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Doctor’s Commons
ST. Thomas’s Hospital Estates
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