John Stoughton
John Stoughton (18 November 1807 – 24 October 1897) was an English Nonconformist minister and historian.
Life[]
He was born at Norwich. His father was an Episcopalian, his mother a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Stoughton was educated at Norwich Grammar School, and, after an interval of legal study, at . In 1833 he became minister at Windsor, in 1843 at Kensington; in 1856 he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union. From 1872 to 1884 he was professor of historical theology in .
Stoughton 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. He died at Ealing on 24 October 1897.
Works[]
Stoughton wrote works of English religious history:
- Church and State 1660-1663 (London, 1862)
- Ecclesiastical History of England (4 vols, London,1870)
- Religion in England under Queen Anne and the Georges (2 vols, 1878)
- Religion in England from 1800 to 1880 (2 vols, 1884)
He also wrote more popular works, among which were Homes and Haunts of Luther (1875),[1] Footprints of Italian Reformers (1881), and The Spanish Reformers (1883). His Recollections of a Long Life (1894) was autobiographical.[2]
References[]
- ^ Stoughton, John (1903) [1875]. The Homes and Haunts of Luther (4th ed.). Religious Tract Society.
- ^ Stoughton, John (1968) [1894]. Recollections of a Long Life. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-8169-3.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stoughton, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 971.
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