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STOUGHTON, JOHN (1807-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STOUGHTON, See also:JOHN (1807-1897) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Norwich on the 18th of See also:November 1807. His See also:father was an Episcopalian, his See also:mother a member of the Society of See also:Friends. Stoughton was educated at Norwich See also:Grammar School, and, after an See also:interval of legal study, at High-See also:bury Congregational See also:College. In 1833 he became See also:minister at See also:Windsor, in 1843 at See also:Kensington; in 1856 he was elected See also:chair-See also:man of the Congregational See also:Union. From 1872 to 1884 he was See also:professor of See also:historical See also:theology in New College, See also:Hampstead. He died at See also:Ealing on the 24th of See also:October 1897. Stoughton was no controversialist, but did a See also:good See also:deal of See also:sound historical See also:work which was published in See also:Church and See also:State 1660-1663 (See also:London, 1862); Ecclesiastical See also:History of See also:England 1640--166o (4 vols., London, 1867-187o); See also:Religion in England under See also:Queen See also:Anne and the Georges (2 vols., 1878); Religion in England from 1800 to 188o (2 vols., 1884). He contributed an See also:account of Nonconformist modes of celebrating the See also:Lord's Supper to the See also:ritual See also:commission of 1870, arranged a See also:conference on co-operation between Anglicans and dissenters (presided over by See also:Archbishop See also:Tait) in 1876, was one of See also:Dean See also:Stanley's lecturers in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey and a See also:pall-See also:bearer at his funeral. He was elected to the See also:Athenaeum See also:Club in 1874 on the nomination of See also:Matthew See also:Arnold. Besides the books already mentioned he wrote a number of more popular See also:works, among which Homes and Haunts of See also:Luther (1875), The See also:Italian Reformers (1881), and The See also:Spanish Reformers (1883) are conspicuous. His Recollections of a See also:Long See also:Life (1894) furnish interesting autobiographical material.

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