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BIRMINGHAM, DOMESTIC
Founded 1840.
PEOPLE'S HALL, HURST STREET.
MISSION.
First premises in Thorp Street, 1840-1844.
Second .. ., Hurst Street, opened October, 1844, preacher,
Charles Wicksteed, B.P.
Third ,, December, 1870, ,, ,, 9 P
MINISTERS TO THE POOR.
Thomas Bowring ... ... 1840-1853
John Robertson 1854-1855
Benjamin Wright ... 1856-1881
James Bullock Gardner 1881-188s
William Joshua Clarke I 885-
THOMAS BOWRING, see Tamworth.
JOHN ROBERTSON, min. Godqlming, 1852 ; Birmingham, 1854-1855 ; Lewes, 1855-1856
Halstead, 1857-1867.
d. 20 April, 1867; bur. Halstead Cemetery.
c$ Inq., 1867, p.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, min. Birmingham, 1856-1881 ; chaplain to Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage,
1881-1890; m. (31 August, 1858) Louisa, daughter <strong>of</strong> An~os Taylor, <strong>of</strong> Birmingham.
d. 29 August, 1891, at. 71 ; bur. Birmingham, General Cemetery.
c$ Inq., 1891, p.
JAMES BULLOCK GARDNER, b. February, 1836, at Macclesfield ; ed. Leicester, Baptist Coll.,
1856-1858 ; min. Congleton (Baptist), 18 58- 1860 ; Sheffield, Upperthorpe, 1867-1869 ;
Birmingham, 1881-1885 ; Colne, 1885-1891 ; Middlesbro', 1891-1894 ; Selby, 1896- ;
m. (8 September, 1862) daughter <strong>of</strong> James Broad, <strong>of</strong> London ; has issue. Q
c$ Record, p. 37.
WILLIAM JOSHUA CLARKE, b. 1843, in Birmingham ; journalist and literary worker ; min.
Birmingham, 1885- ; m. and has issue.
cf: Edg~astonia, 1898, p. 181 (with portrait).
TOPOGRAPHY.
C. L., 31 August, 1889.
BIRMINGHAM, DOMESTIC MISSION.
Founded 1844,.
LOWER FAZELEY STREET.
First premises in The Gullet, engaged December, 1845 ; licensed for worship
April, 1846.
Second ,, Bailey Street, opened 23 May, 1847.
Third ! ,, Lawrence Street, opened 6 August, 1848.
Fourth , ,, Lower Fazeley Street, opened 2 December, 1888.
[NoTE.-T~~ premises in Lower Fazeley Street are those formerly
belonging to <strong>the</strong> Free Christian Society, which met (I) 117, New Canal
Street, 5 January, 1862 ; (2) Meriden Street, 22 November, 1863 ; (3) Lower
Fazeley Street, 5 November, 1865, added to in May, 1868, and church
opened, Easter Day, 1877. Its first lay preachers were G. R. Twinn, Hy.
Solomon, S. B. Whitfield, Arthur Bache Mat<strong>the</strong>ws, and o<strong>the</strong>rs. Last met
on 2 December, 18881.
MINISTERS TO THE POOR.
John Gent Brooks ...
Richard Edward Dunne
John Wilson . . .
Edward Thomas Russell
Frederick Teasdale Reed
Thomas Pipe . . .
JOHN GENT BROOKS, b. 23 September, 1815, at Hinckley ; ed. Ealing Training School ;
min. Birmingham, 1844-1854.
d. 30 January, 1854.
C$ C.R., 1854, p. 91 ; Memoir by E. T. Whitfield.
RICH~D EDWARD DUNNE, b. 24 June, 1812, at Kingscourt, Co. Cavan ; ed. Dublin,
Trinity Coll. ; min. Birmingham, 1854-1863 ; Diss, 1866-1870 ; Colyton, 1871-1873 ;
Ireland, zvithout charge, 1873-1891 ; 772. (I) (1843), Anne (d. 1873), daughter <strong>of</strong> George
Powell, <strong>of</strong> Ballylanders ; (2) (1879), Marianne Frances (d. 1895) ; Issue, George
Thomas, B.A. (Vicar <strong>of</strong> Burnopfield, Durham), Harriet ((2: Ceylon, 1886), Maria (m.
D. H. Jenkins, minister, Wellington, N.Z.)
d. 31 March, 1891 ; bur. Dunmanway Church Yard, Co. Cork.
cf. Col'ytonia, p. 46.