Clergy Bias Skews Headmaster Elections in England
A reader laments that law awarding equal eligibility for headmaster posts to clergy and laymen has not opened the profession to lay candidates. Clergy influence dominates councils and appointments, keeping laymen out despite qualifications, with many discouraged from pursuing education careers. The writer, a twice reelected lay candidate, now faces career ruin and urges public notice.
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England
Church of England
Oxford
Cambridge
Gordon’s Liberation Lectures Reach Tyneside
Mr Gordon of Darlington spoke at the Mechanics Institute Walker on popular aspects of the Liberation question. Rev G Douglas urged discussion of Church and State amid Parliament debates on Public Worship Regulation and Abolishing Patronage in Scotland.
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Newcastle Chronicle
Gordon
Tyneside
Low Walkerr
Darlington
Mechanics’ Institute
Walker
G. Douglas
United Presbyterian
Church of Scotland
Church of England
Disestablishment Debate Sparks Controversy Across Towns
A lecturer argued that the Church of England is a national establishment backed by state funds and inhibits equal rights. He claimed disestablishment would remove a favored religion and reduce class-based loyalty to the state, provoking applause and sharp rebuttals from clergy and aristocracy during meetings in Wallsend Blaydon and nearby venues.
Liberationist Lectures Draw Strong Local Interest
In a Primitive Methodist schoolroom Mr. G. Dixon chaired a capital meeting where Gordon spoke on The Liberation Society and its aims and limitations. The audience cheered and pledged support to the society’s work as one. In Shelley near Hopppersfield Mr. Gordon spoke on Liberalisation as a working man’s question with Mr. Jackson presiding and Mr. Andrews detailing work, ending with another well received Shelley meeting amid hot weather.
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Church of England
Mr. Gordon
Sweet Auburns
Arch
Hear
Church of the Nation
Duke of Northumberland
Wallsend
Gordon
Methodist Free Church
Charlton
Newcastle
Liberation B Society
Primitive Methodist
G. Dixon
Liberation Society
Shelley
Hoppersfield
Connexion
Yorkshire
Jackson
Andrews
Disestablishment Programme Outlined By Liberation Society
London correspondent outlines a UK wide campaign by the Liberation Society to disestablish the church. Plans include local and district agencies, a permanent lecturer named Gordon, increased staff, country specific work for Scotland and Wales, and a fundraising target of 20000 pounds per year to be pursued this autumn. A Northern England conference at Manchester will open the campaign in early November.
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London
Manchester Examiner
The
Liberation Society
England
Scotland
Wales
Gordon
Manchester
Is the Church of England a Protestant Church
A letter to Dr Littledale argues the Church of England is Protestant in faith and status. It cites the Protestant articles, coronation oath, and statute language naming the church Protestant and episcopal, while addressing endowment and national character claims.
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Zcho
Littledale
Church of England
London
Henry Viiii
Edward VI
Colet, Gardiner, Tunstall
Elizabeth
William Harcourt
Protestant Episcopal Church
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