Algernon Thelwall

Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795, Cowes, Isle of Wight – 1863, London) was an evangelical Church of England clergyman and teacher of elocution.

Life

Algernon Sydney Thelwall MA, was the eldest son of the poet, radical and orator John Thelwall. He was named after the 17th century republican Algernon Sydney showing his fathers political leanings.[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating 18th Wrangler in 1818.[2] Ordained in 1819, he was English chaplain and missionary to the Jews in Amsterdam from 1819 to 1826. In 1828 he married Georgiana Anne Tahourdin, and in 1829 became curate of Blackford, Somerset.[3] He was a founder of the Trinitarian Bible Society in 1831, and the Society's secretary from 1836 to 1847. An anti-Catholic, he was active on behalf of the Protestant committee opposing the Maynooth Grant in 1845. In 1850 Thelwall was appointed Lecturer on Elocution and Public Reading within the theology department of King's College London.

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

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  1. John Thelwall (1764-1834)
  2. "Thelwall, Algernon Sydney (THLL813AS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Persons: Thelwall, Algernon Sydney (1818–1829) in "CCEd, the Clergy of the Church of England database" (Accessed online, 2 February 2014)

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