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Businesses (1)
Organisations (59)
- Battle free-thinking congregation Battle, Sussex
- Blunham Baptist Old Meeting Blunham, Bedfordshire
- Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations London
- British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society: Bristol and Clifton ladies auxiliary Bristol, Gloucestershire;Clifton, Gloucestershire
- Cirencester Unitarian Church Cirencester, Gloucestershire
- Congregational Church in England and Wales
- Congregational Home Missionary Society
- Congregational Society for Spreading the Gospel in England
- Coward College, London London
- East Kent Baptist Association Kent;Kent
- Fetter Lane Independent Chapel, London London
- Free Christian Union
- Free Church Federal Council
- Frome Particular Baptist Church Frome, Somerset
- General Baptist Assembly
- General Baptist Church, Canterbury Canterbury, Kent
- General Baptist Church, Deptford Deptford, Kent
- General Baptist Church, Dover Dover, Kent
- Great Yarmouth General Baptist Church Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Hackney College Hackney, Middlesex
- Hertfordshire Congregational Union (Central District) Hertfordshire;Hertfordshire
- Highbury College Highbury, Middlesex
- Homerton College Homerton, Middlesex
- Hoxton Academy and Congregational Church Hoxton, Middlesex
- Kent and Sussex Baptist Association Kent;Kent
- Kings Weigh House Congregational Church, London London
- Lambeth Evangelical Church Lambeth, Surrey
- Lewin's Mead Unitarian Church, Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Lincoln Unitarian Chapel Lincoln, Lincolnshire
- Little Portland Street Unitarian Chapel, Westminster Westminster, Middlesex
- London and Southern Baptist association London
- London Itinerant Society London
- London Missionary Society
- London Society for the Study of Religion London
- London Unitarian Ministers Meeting London;Greater London
- Lord Wharton's Bible Charity
- Lutton Baptist Church Lutton, Lincolnshire
- New College, London London
- New Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney Hackney, Middlesex
- Northampton Academy Northampton, Northamptonshire
- Potterspury and Yardley Gobion Congregational Church Potterspury, Northamptonshire;Yardley Gobion, Northamptonshire
- Presbyterian Fund
- Princes Street and Stamford Street Unitarian chapels, Westminster Westminster, Middlesex
- Provincial Assembly of London London
- Provincial Assembly of Non-subscribing Ministers and Congregations of London and the South-Eastern Counties London
- Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead Hampstead, Middlesex
- Rowland Hill's Almshouses, Wotton-under-Edge Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: London, Coward College association London
- Society for the Relief of the Necessitous Widows and Children of Poor Dissenting Ministers
- Speldhurst and Penbury General Baptists Speldhurst, Kent
- St Paul's Alley General Baptist Church, Barbican, London London
- The Protestant Society
- Tunbridge Wells General Baptist Church Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Turner's Hill General Baptist Church Turner's Hill, Sussex
- United Brethren of Devon and Cornwall: Exeter assembly Exeter, Devon
- Well St Free School, Hackney Hackney, Middlesex
- Westminster Assembly of Divines
- Wisbech Baptist Chapel Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
- Wymondley House Academy Wymondley, Hertfordshire
Persons (197)
- Alford, Henry, (1810-1871), Dean of Canterbury
- Allestree, Charles, (1654-1707), Vicar of Daventry
- Allon, Henry, (1818-1892), Congregational Minister Author and Editor
- Amyot, Thomas, (1775-1850), antiquary
- Ashworth, Caleb, (1722-1775), Independent Minister Principal of Daventry Academy
- Aspland, Robert Brook, (1805-1869), Unitarian minister biographer
- Atherton, Sir William, (1806-1864), Knight, Solicitor General
- Baillie, Joanna, (1762-1851), playwright and poet
- Baxter, Richard, (1615-1691), Presbyterian
- Belsham, Thomas, (1750-1829), Unitarian minister theologian
- Bentham, Jeremy, (1748-1832), lawyer, philosopher, writer on jurisprudence
- Besant, Sir Walter, (1836-1901), Knight, novelist and historian
- Binney, Thomas, (1798-1874), Nonconformist Minister Poet and Polemicist
- Blackburn, John, (1791-1855), Congregational minister
- Blackburne, Francis, (1705-1787), Archdeacon of Cleveland Theologian
- Blackmore, Chewning, (1663-1737), Nonconformist Minister at Worcester
- Blackmore, William, (d 1684), Nonconformist Minister
- Boott, Francis, (1792-1863), Physician and Botanist
- Britton, John, (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer
- Brougham, Henry Peter, (1778-1868), 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, Lord Chancellor
- Bryce, James, (1838-1922), Viscount Bryce of Dechmount, statesman
- Buck, Charles, (1771-1815), Congregational Minister
- Burder, Henry Forster, (1783-1864), Congregational Minister
- Burney, Sarah Harriet, (1772-1844), Novelist
- Carpenter, Joseph Estlin, (1844-1927), Unitarian Principal of Manchester College Oxford
- Cave, Alfred, (1847-1900), Congregational Minister Theologian
- Cawton, Thomas, (? 1636-1677), Orientalist and Independent Minister
- Chapman, Maria Weston, (1806-1885), American reformer
- Clarke, Samuel, (1684-1750), Congregational Minister
- Clarkson, Thomas, (1760-1846), philanthropist
- Coleridge, Derwent, (1800-1883), author
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Coleridge, Sara, (1802-1852), author, editor and translator
- Collier, John Payne, (1789-1883), Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary and journalist
- Collins, Edward James Mortimer, (1827-1876), novelist and journalist
- Collins, John, (? 1632-1687), Congregational minister
- Collyer, William Bengo, (1782-1854), Congregational Minister
- Conder, John, (1714-1781), Congregational Minister
- Cruso, Timothy, (? 1656-1697), Presbyterian Minister
- Devitt, Sir Thomas Lane, (1839-1923), 1st Baronet, shipowner
- Disney, John, (1746-1816), Unitarian Minister Theologian and Antiquary
- Doddridge, Philip, (1702-1751), Nonconformist minister, schoolmaster, hymn writer
- Du Moulin, Lewis, (1606-1680), Nonconformist Controversialist
- Du Moulin, Peter, (1601-1684), Theologian
- Durie, John, (1596-1680), theologian
- Eliot, John, (1604-1690), missionary in New England
- Ellis, William, (1794-1872), missionary
- Enfield, Edward, (1811-1880), Philanthropist
- Estlin, John Bishop, (1785-1855), Surgeon
- Estlin, Mary, (fl 1820-1884), Anti Slavery and Womens Rights Activist
- Evans, Evan John, (1827-1891), Hebraist
- Evans, John, (? 1680-1730), Congregational minister and historian
- Eyre, John, (1754-1803), Evangelical Clergyman
- Field, Barron, (1786-1846), lawyer and miscellaneous writer
- Field, Edwin Wilkins, (1804-1871), Law Reformer and Painter
- Firmin, Giles, (1614-1697), theologian
- Fleming, Caleb, (1698-1779), Presbyterian Minister and Controversialist
- Fletcher, Alexander, (1787-1860), Presbyterian minister
- Fletcher, Joseph, (1784-1843), Theologian
- Ford, David Everard, (1797-1875), Congregational minister, author and musical composer
- Fox, William Johnson, (1786-1864), preacher, politician and journalist
- Freeman, Edward Augustus, (1823-1892), historian
- Frend, William, (1757-1841), Unitarian Reformer and Scientific Writer
- Gallenga, Antonio Carlo Napoleone, (1810-1895), Italian Politician Pseudonym Luigi Mariotti
- Garnham, Richard Edward, (1753-1802), Theologian
- Garrison, William Lloyd, (1805-1879), American anti-slavery leader
- Garvie, Alfred Ernest, (1861-1945), Principal of Hackney and New College
- Gouge, Thomas, (? 1665-1700), Independent Minister
- Hallet, Joseph, (? 1691-1744), Nonconformist Minister Controversialist
- Halley, Robert, (1796-1876), Nonconformist Minister and Historian
- Hardinge, George, (1743-1816), MP Author
- Harris, John, (1802-1856), Principal of New College London
- Hartopp, Sir John, (? 1637-1722), 3rd Baronet Nonconformist
- Hays, Mary, (1760-1843), novelist and feminist
- Henderson, Ebenezer, (1784-1858), Missionary
- Henry, Matthew, (1662-1714), commentator
- Henry, Philip, (1631-1696), Nonconformist minister and diarist
- Herbert, George, (1593-1633), Anglican clergyman and public orator
- Hickman, Henry, (d 1692), Controversialist
- Hicks, William, (1621-1660), Puritan
- Hill, Rowland, (1744-1833), preacher
- Hollis, Thomas, (1720-1774), Antiquary Republican
- Hood, Edwin Paxton, (1820-1885), Congregational Minister Author Biographer
- Hope, Frederick William, (1797-1862), Entomologist
- Howe, John, (1630-1705), Presbyterian minister
- Humfrey, John, (1621-1719), Congregational Minister
- Hutton, Richard Holt, (1826-1897), theologian journalist and man of letters
- Huxtable, William John Fairchild, (1912-1990), exectutive secretary of Churches Unity Commission
- James, John Angell, (1785-1859), Independent Minister
- Jebb, John, (1736-1786), Theological and Political Writer
- Jennings, David, (1691-1762), Independent Minister
- Johnson, Joseph, (1738-1809), Bookseller and Printer
- Jollie, Thomas, (1629-1703), Nonconformist Minister
- Jones, John, (1700-1770), Anglican Clergyman and Controversialist
- Kenrick, John, (1788-1877), Classical Scholar and Historian
- Kenrick, Samuel, (1728-1811), Unitarian Banker
- Kenrick, Timothy, (1759-1804), Unitarian minister and Bible commentator
- Kentish, John, (1768-1853), Unitarian Minister
- Kenyon, John, (1784-1856), Poet and Philanthropist
- Kiddell, John, (1721-1810), Nonconformist Minister
- Knebel, Karl Ludwig von, (1744-1834), German poet and translator
- Lamb, Charles, (1775-1834), essayist and humorist
- Landor, Walter Savage, (1775-1864), author
- Lardner, Nathaniel, (1684-1768), Patristic Scholar
- Lavington, John, (d 1764), nonconformist minister
- Law, William, (1686-1761), Devotional Writer
- Leifchild, John, (1780-1862), Independent Minister
- Lenwood, Frank, (1874-1934), Congregational Minister and Missionary
- Lewis, John, (1675-1747), antiquary
- Lindsey, Theophilus, (1723-1808), Unitarian minister
- Lofft, Capell, (1751-1824), writer
- Love, Christopher, (1618-1651), Puritan Minister
- MacDonald, George, (1824-1905), novelist and poet
- Martineau, James, (1805-1900), Unitarian minister
- Masquerier, John James, (1778-1855), Painter
- Mead, Matthew, (? 1630-1699), Independent Minister
- Miall, Edward, (1809-1881), Politician Independent Minister
- Miles, Henry, (1698-1763), Dissenting Minister and Scientific Writer
- Mivart, St George Jackson, (1827-1900), Biologist
- Morison, John, (1791-1859), Congregational Minister Editor of 'evangelical Magazine'
- Morley, Samuel, (1809-1886), politician
- Morrice, Roger, (1628-1702), Puritan Minister, political journalist and agent
- Morrison, Robert, (1782-1834), missionary to China
- Mullens, Joseph, (1820-1879), Missionary
- Newman, Francis William, (1805-1897), Scholar and Man of Letters
- Newth, Samuel, (1821-1898), Principal of New College London
- Orton, Job, (1717-1783), Dissenting Minister
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, (1815-1888), classical scholar
- Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, (1747-1802), Unitarian minister
- Parry, William, (1754-1819), Congregational Minister and Theologian
- Paton, John Brown, (1830-1911), Congregational minister and author
- Payne, George, (1781-1848), Congregational Minister and Philosopher
- Payne Smith, Robert, (1819-1895), Dean of Canterbury, Orientalist and theologian
- Pearsall, Richard, (1698-1762), Nonconformist Minister
- Plummer, Alfred, (1841-1926), Theologian
- Pointer, John, (1668-1754), Antiquary
- Pollock, Sir Jonathan Frederick, (1783-1870), 1st Baronet, MP, judge
- Poole, Matthew, (1624-1679), Biblical Commentator
- Price, Richard, (1723-1791), dissenting minister, philosopher and actuary
- Priestley, Joseph, (1733-1804), scientist
- Purves, James, (1734-1795), Scottish Sectary
- Raffles, Thomas, (1788-1863), Independent Minister, antiquary
- Rees, Thomas, (1777-1864), Unitarian Minister and Historian
- Rippon, John, (1751-1836), Baptist Minister and Antiquary
- Robinson, Henry Crabb, (1775-1867), Diarist
- Rogers, Richard, (1551-1618), Church of England clergyman and author
- Rogers, Samuel, (1763-1855), poet
- Russell, Thomas, (fl1781-1846), independent minister
- Rutt, John Towill, (1760-1841), Politician
- Sadler, Thomas, (1822-1891), Unitarian Minister
- Sandwith, Humphry, (1822-1881), Army Physician Colonial Secretary
- Say, Samuel, (1676-1743), Dissenting Minister
- Scharf, Sir George, (1820-1895), Knight, director of the National Portrait Gallery
- Scott, James, (1768-1827), Unitarian minister
- Seddon, John, (1725-1770), Dissenting minister
- Shepherd, William, (1768-1847), Unitarian minister political reformer
- Sidgwick, Henry, (1838-1900), philosopher and educationalist
- Simpson, Abraham Calovius, (1792-1866), Congregational minister
- Simpson, Robert, (1746-1818), Principal of Hoxton Academy
- Smith, John Pye, (1774-1851), Congregational minister
- Smith, Philip, (1817-1885), historian
- Smith, Thomas Southwood, (1788-1861), sanitary reformer
- Smith, William, (1756-1835), politician
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Spicer, Sir Albert, (1847-1934), 1st Baronet MP
- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, (1834-1892), Baptist preacher Kelvedon, Essex
- Stockton, Owen, (1630-1680), Presbyterian
- Stonhouse, Sir James, (1716-1795), 11th Baronet Physician and Anglican Clergyman
- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth, (1811-1896), author and anti-slavery campaigner
- Swanwick, Anna, (1813-1899), author
- Tayler, John James, (1797-1869), Unitarian minister historian
- Taylor, William, (1765-1836), Critic and Translator
- Thom, John Hamilton, (1808-1894), Unitarian Minister
- Tombes, John, (? 1603-1676), Baptist Minister and Pamphleteer
- Tooke, William, (1744-1820), Historian of Russia
- Toulmin, Joshua, (1740-1815), Unitarian minister and historian Taunton, Somerset
- Towgood, Micaijah, (1700-1792), Nonconformist Minister
- Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, (1810-1892), Author
- Turner, William, (1714-1794), Unitarian Minister of Westgate Chapel Wakefield
- Urwick, William, (1791-1868), Congregational Minister
- Wakefield, Gilbert, (1756-1801), Unitarian and Author
- Walton, Christopher, (1809-1877), Theosophist
- Wardlaw, Ralph, (1779-1853), Scottish Congregational minister
- Watts, Gabriel, (b 1768), Nonconformist Minister
- Watts, Isaac, (1674-1748), Independent minister and writer
- Welch, Edwin, (b 1927), author
- White, William, (1604-1678), Anglican clergyman and author
- Wiche, John, (1718-1794), Baptist Minister
- Wicksteed, Philip Henry, (1844-1927), economist
- Williams, Charles, (1796-1866), Congregational minister
- Williams, Daniel, (? 1643-1716), Nonconformist minister and philanthropist
- Wilson, Thomas, (1764-1843), Nonconformist Benefactor
- Wilson, Walter, (1781-1847), Nonconformist Biographer
- Wodrow, James, (1730-1810), Minister of Stevenston Ayrshire
- Worsley, Israel, (1768-1836), Unitarian Minister
- Worthington, Hugh, (1752-1813), Arian Theologian
- Youatt, William, (1776-1847), Veterinary Surgeon
Families (1)
- Disney family of The Hyde The Hyde, Essex;Halstock, Dorset;Fryerning, Essex;Ingatestone, Essex;Margaretting, Essex;Norton Disney, Lincolnshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (8)
- NRA 6178 Cirencester Unitarian Church
- NRA 14463 Rev John Curwen: autograph collection
- NRA 6520 Estlin family of Bristol: anti-slavery correspondence
- NRA 3413 Hertfordshire Congregational Union
- NRA 13042 New College, London link to scanned list link to scanned list link to scanned list
- NRA 12181 Potterspury and Yardley Gobion Congregational Church
- NRA 13868 Western College: MS collection link to scanned list
- NRA 13168 Dr Williams's Library MS collection
Accessions
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