John Kensit was an English religious leader and polemicist.

In 1889 he founded the Protestant Truth Society

Protestant Truth Society

The Protestant Truth Society is a charity and campaigning organisation that seeks to promote the Protestant faith in the UK, both in spiritual and doctrinal matters, and in the way that the country is governed...

 to oppose what he saw as the excessive influence of the Oxford Movement

Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church Anglicans, eventually developing into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose members were often associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of lost Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy...

 on the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

, despite the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874

Public Worship Regulation Act 1874

The Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced as a Private Member's Bill by Archbishop of Canterbury Archibald Campbell Tait, to limit what he perceived as the growing ritualism of Anglo-Catholicism and the Oxford Movement within the Church...

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Kensit died in October 1902, of pneumonia and blood poisoning, the result of a wound he received in September that year when he was struck by a missile thrown by a protestor as he arrived to a meeting in Birkenhead

Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...

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