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6 unusual facts about Dissenter


Boldre

Comyn was worried about the growth of religious dissent amongst the Boldre parishioners and that may explain why he made great effort to record Dissenters in his notebooks .

Henry Sacheverell

This was the decree of the state, and it had the effect of making him a martyr in the eyes of the populace and (along with heavy taxes on Londoners) bringing about the first Sacheverell riots that year in London and the rest of the country, which included attacks on Presbyterian and other Dissenter places of worship, with some being burned down.

John Catnach

John had been raised as a Roman Catholic and his wife as a Presbyterian, but in the baptismal records of St. Michael’s Church, Alnwick, she is described as a (religious) Dissenter.

Joseph Towers

Joseph Towers (1737–1799) was an English Dissenter and biographer.

Matthew Henry Barker

Barker was born in 1790 at Deptford, where his father had attained some distinction as a dissenting minister.

Ringway, Manchester

1721 Dissenters were ejected from the chapel, and moved to a barn, and in 1723 re-established themselves at Hale.


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Artistic inspiration

At the same time, he satirized "inspired" radical Protestant ministers who preached through "direct inspiration." In his prefatory materials, he describes the ideal dissenter's pulpit as a barrel with a tube running from the minister's posterior to a set of bellows at the bottom, whereby the minister could be inflated to such an extent that he could shout out his inspiration to the congregation.

Communist Party of Sweden

Communist Party in Sweden, KPS, a pro-Albanian, dissenter group from the former, formed in 1982 but dissolved in 1993,

Egbert v. Lippmann

Justice Samuel Freeman Miller was the sole dissenter in this case, disagreeing with the majority about the “public” nature of Frances’ use of the corset-steels.

Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville

Edward appointed Geoffrey as Marshal of England in place of the main dissenter Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk until the crisis was over.

John David Jenkins

After his appointment to Aberdare, a town where Dissenters were strong, Jenkins organised choral services with psalms being sung to Anglican chants and the canticles to Gregorian chants.

Llanvaches

He set up his Congregationalist chapel, "according to the New England pattern", completed in 1639, with the help of the leading Dissenter, Henry Jessey.

Lottie Beebe

Beebe remains the most outspoken dissenter on the BESE board, the president of which is Chas Roemer, older son of former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer.

Pomoan languages

The most important dissenter was Abraham M. Halpern, one of the few linguists since Barrett's time to collect comparative data on all of the Pomoan languages.

Samuel Boddington

Thereafter, Samuel approached his friend, Richard Sharp (politician), a fellow Dissenter, fellow member of the Fishmongers' Company, and both mutual friends of Samuel Rogers, asking if he would join him in business, and eventually a West India company of Boddington, Sharp and Philips (Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet) was established at 17 Mark Lane.

Slavyanka, Azerbaijan

Along with a number of other villages in northwestern Azerbaijan, Slavyanka was settled in 1844 by the Doukhobors, members of a Pacifist dissenter Christian group resettled to Transcaucasia by Nicholas I from the Molochna River settlements in today's Zaporizhia Oblast of the Ukraine.

Tain

A leading landowning family of the area was the Clan Munro who provided many leading political and religious figures to the town, including the dissenter Rev John Munro of Tain (died ca. 1630).

Thomas Hollis

Thomas Brand Hollis (1719–1804), British political radical and dissenter

William Mothipa Madisha

A noted dissenter from the predominant opinion of COSATU, he had publicly backed Thabo Mbeki for the presidency at the African National Congress's 2007 national conference in Polokwane while the trade union federation had adopted a resolution backing Jacob Zuma.

William Wroth

His new chapel in Llanvaches was organised "according to the New England pattern" - that is, Congregational - and was completed that same year with the help of the fellow leading Dissenter, Henry Jessey.


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