biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1744–1833)
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| biography:
| Popular preacher, born in Hawkstone Park, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge where, influenced by Methodism, he gave open-air sermons despite opposition from the authorities, and became an itinerant preacher after his ordination as curate (1773). Receiving an inheritance, he built Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Rd, London, for his own use. He helped to found the Religious Tract Society and the London Missionary Society, and it is said that the first London Sunday school was his. His Village Dialogues (1801) was immensely popular. |
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