STOUGHTON, JOHN (1807-1897)
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STOUGHTON, JOHN (1807-1897) , English Nonconformist divine, was born at Norwich on the 18th of November 1807. His father was an Episcopalian, his mother a member of the Society of Friends. Stoughton was educated at Norwich Grammar School, and, after an interval of legal study, at High-bury Congregational College. In 1833 he became minister at Windsor, in 1843 at Kensington; in 1856 he was elected chair-man of the Congregational Union. From 1872 to 1884 he was professor of historical theology in New College, Hampstead . He died at Ealing on the 24th of October 1897. Stoughton was no controversialist, but did a good deal of sound historical work which was published in Church and State 1660-1663 (London, 1862); Ecclesiastical History of England 1640--166o (4 vols., London, 1867-187o); Religion in England under Queen Anne and the Georges (2 vols., 1878); Religion in England from 1800 to 188o (2 vols., 1884). He contributed an account of Nonconformist modes of celebrating the Lord's Supper to the ritual commission of 1870, arranged a conference on co-operation between Anglicans and dissenters (presided over by Archbishop Tait) in 1876, was one of Dean Stanley 's lecturers in Westminster Abbey and a pall -bearer at his funeral. He was elected to the Athenaeum Club in 1874 on the nomination of Matthew Arnold See Also: - ARNOLD
- ARNOLD, BENEDICT (1741-1801)
- ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)
- MATTHEW _1822_1888_.html">ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)
- ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2)
- ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904)
- THOMAS
See Also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
_1745_1842_.html">ARNOLD, THOMAS See Also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
(1745-1842) .
Besides the books already mentioned he wrote a number of more popular works, among which Homes and Haunts of Luther (1875), The Italian Reformers (1881), and The Spanish Reformers (1883) are conspicuous. His Recollections of a Long Life (1894) furnish interesting autobiographical material.
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