Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795, Cowes

Cowes

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, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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 – 1863, London

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) was an evangelical

Evangelicalism

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 Church of England

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 clergyman and teacher of elocution

Elocution

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Life

Algernon Sydney Thelwall M.A., was the eldest son of the poet, radical and orator John Thelwall

John Thelwall

John Thelwall , was a radical British orator, writer, and elocutionist.-Life:Thelwall was born in Covent Garden, London, but was descended from a Welsh family which had its seat at Plas y Ward, Denbighshire...

. He was named after the 17th century republican Algernon Sydney

Algernon Sydney

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 showing his fathers political leanings
. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

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, graduating 18th Wrangler in 1818. Ordained in 1819, he was English chaplain and missionary to the Jews in Amsterdam

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 from 1819 to 1826. In 1828 he married Georgiana Anne Tahourdin, and in 1829 became curate of Blackford, Somerset

Blackford, Somerset

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. He was a founder of the Trinitarian Bible Society

Trinitarian Bible Society

The Trinitarian Bible Society was founded in 1831 "to promote the Glory of God and the salvation of men by circulating, both at home and abroad, in dependence on the Divine blessing, the Holy Scriptures, which are given by inspiration of God and are able to make men wise unto salvation through...

 in 1831, and the Society's secretary from 1836 to 1847. An anti-Catholic

Anti-Catholicism

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, he was active on behalf of the Protestant committee opposing the Maynooth Grant

Maynooth Grant

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 in 1845. In 1850 Thelwall was appointed Lecturer on Elocution and Public Reading within the theology department of King's College London

King's College London

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The clergyman and scholar Sydney Thelwall was a son of Algernon Sydney Thelwall.

Works

• Sermons, 1833
• The iniquities of the opium trade with China, 1839. In Internet Archive.
• The idolatry of the church of Rome, 1844. In Internet Archive.
• Proceedings of the Anti-Maynooth Conference of 1845 : with a historical introduction and an appendix, 1845. In Internet Archive.
• The Reading Desk and the Pulpit, 1861

External links

• E-books by Thelwall at the Internet Archive
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