William James Dawson was an English

English people

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 clergyman, author, and the father of Coningsby Dawson

Coningsby Dawson

Coningsby Dawson was an Anglo-American Novelist and Soldier, Canadian Field Artillery, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.-Education:He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1905...

. He was born at Towchester, Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

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, was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester

Manchester

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, and entered the Wesleyan

Methodism

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 ministry in 1875. He resigned from the Wesleyan ministry and entered the Congregational

Congregational church

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 in 1892. in 1904 he resigned his charge in London

London

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 to devote himself to evangelic

Evangelism

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 work.

Works

• A Vision of Souls (1884), poems
• Quest and Vision, Essays on Life and Literature (1886; enlarged , 1892)
• The Makers of Modern Poetry (1890)
• The Redemption of Edward Strahan: A Social Story (1891)

" "The Making of Manhood" (1894)

• London Idyls (1895)
• The Story of Hannah (1896)
• The House of Dreams (1897)
• Judith Boldero: A Tragic Romance (1898)
• Makers of Modern Prose (1899)
• Savonarola: A Drama (1900)
• The Man Christ Jesus
  Christ
  Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...
  
  (1901)
• Makers of English Fiction (1905)
• The Forgotten Secret (1906)
• A Soldier of the Future (1908)
• The Book of Courage (1911)
• The American Hymnal (1913)
• Robert Shenstone (1917), novel
• The Father of a Soldier (1917)
• The War Eagle (1918)
• Chalmers Comes Back (1919)
• The Borrowing Tragedy (1920)