Reference
CRT170/9/17
Title
'Some Bedfordshire Links with Unitarians and Liberal Christians' by H.G. Tibbutt.
Date free text
1787-1883
Production date
From: 1787 To: 1883
old accession number 11504
Scope and Content
Bedford Unitarian group was first formed by Rowland Hill in about 1870 and lasted until he died in 1945. The first Luton cause lasted for little more than 12 years , set up and run by A. Wright Matthews.
Includes accounts of
Thomas Fyshe Palmer who left the Anglican ministry to become a Unitarian Minister and was transported to New South Wales for sedition in the 1790s
Nathaniel Polhill of Howbury Hall
Robert Hibbert of East Hyde near Luton. Founder of the Hibbert Trust etc.
Wiiliam Wells, born at Biggleswade
Thomas Belsham born in Bedford - ampngst others a Unitarian correspondent of Sameul Whitbread
Level of description
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