. Benjamin Bowring came from a family that had been involved for over two centuries in the woollen industry in Exeter. After receiving his early education at the Unitarian chapel academy in his mother’s native

, where his religious commitment became Unitarian in emphasis, he tried to alleviate unemployment and ill health from lack of sanitation; he started a day and night school for men, an industrial school for

Congregationalist Unitarian Church in Brighton, and Hannah Webster, novelist; d. 4 May 1886 at Montreal, Que. Before her marriage to Dr

in the early 1840s the family helped found the Unitarian Church of the Messiah [see John Cordner*]. Louisa and her family continued to

, Hope was able to leave to his brother and sons a successful iron and hardware firm. Adam Hope shared the liberal outlook and Unitarian religion of his

Unitarian) an annual salary of $1,000, which he accepted on the understanding that he would not have to participate in the mission’s religious activities

growth and influence of the Unitarian faith, of which she was an active member. She was on the advisory committee and the board of Montreal’s Church of the Messiah

sisters. Little is known of Emma’s youth. Raised a Baptist, in adulthood she was recorded as a Unitarian and later an Anglican. She probably attended local schools and may have received further education

Association. In addition, he was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and sat on its council. A Unitarian, he participated in numerous philanthropic endeavours. Among his most prominent services were those

married John Wesley Weldon, also a well-known lawyer and politician; his son Charles Wentworth became a prominent Unitarian clergyman, congressman, and historian in Massachusetts. In recognition of Upham’s

resolved when the synod decided to emphasize a Christian, rather than exclusively Lutheran, orientation. Icelandic Unitarians attended, and were excused from the otherwise mandatory attendance at chapel

things to say about the Unitarians. Of the Jews, Campbell comments: “Over against [the crucifixion of Christ] is to be placed the fact that our great redeemer was a Jew, and that Christians owe the large

.” Carman Miller ANQ-M, État civil, Presbytériens, St Andrew’s Church (Montreal), 1830–36; Unitariens, Messiah Unitarian Church

in her attitude to Christianity: she participated in meetings of Christian Scientists and was asked to write for their publication; she was invited to publish in the Unitarian Hibbert Journal

of First Unitarian Church in Toronto and of All Angels’ Episcopal Church in New York, he was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Despite

 Oct. 1816 in Boston, son of Unitarian minister Charles Lowell and Harriet Brackett Spence, elder brother of poet and literary critic James Russell Lowell; m. 28 Oct. 1845 Mary Ann Duane, and

fixed on the Master and his love, our object to win souls for Him.” Raised in a Unitarian family, Tilton had joined the Church of England at the time of her marriage and her faith was grounded in Anglican

humour. To the townspeople of Tracadie, the Presbyterian turned Unitarian who was always “reading and thinking” was an enigma. Undoubtedly Smith’s specialty, which was very much on the fringes of medical

only one of many during his ministry in Montreal. In 1920 there was renewed concern when Symonds attended a service of the Unitarian Church of the Messiah in Montreal. Although Symonds’s stand was

Peterborough Bertram had abandoned Presbyterianism in favour of Unitarianism, though his wife had not. At his funeral a minister of each faith officiated