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                  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
                   
                  whose hostility to the provincial government was partly rooted in disappointment of their material expectations and a jealous contempt for the local élite. In the case of Matthews, a Unitarian, as in that
                  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 Moretonhampstead, he
                   
                  work on the project that summer in Montreal, he died of tuberculosis. He was buried by the Unitarian minister, John Cordner*, and rests in an
                  , he became interested in the organization of a Unitarian congregation in Montreal, which among its supporters had a great many merchants of New England origin. In 1832 he was one of a group that
                   
                  cabinet makers.” One of Baird’s first important commissions was from the Christian Unitarian Society of Montreal. For its church, opened in 1845
                   
                  produced on his mind was a dislike to the perusal of the Bible ever since.” Indeed, Maclean was widely believed to be an “infidel,” the contemporary Island term for atheist, agnostic, Unitarian, or apostate
                  (1857–58). But he worked for many other denominations in the city, designing the Methodist New Connexion Church, Temperance Street (1846), the Unitarian Church, Jarvis Street (1854), Zion Church
                  burning. Carpenter was much concerned with these social problems. In his ministry at Warrington (Lancashire), 1846–58, where his religious commitment became Unitarian in emphasis, he tried to alleviate
                  HINCKS, WILLIAM, Unitarian clergyman, theologian, and university professor; b. 16 April 1794, Cork, Ireland
                  Unitarian Society of Montreal on 6 June 1842. His Unitarianism sprang from his association with his uncle, Moses Gilbert, who was one of the earliest Unitarians in Montreal. As a member of the society’s
                  ” – the contemporary Island name for atheists, agnostics, Unitarians, and apostates – and he did not have strong convictions about the intrinsic rightness or wrongness of either Protestantism or Roman
                  , along with the Unitarian Francis Hincks*, in the St Patrick Society, which had been founded in 1834. Both of them, with Lewis Thomas
                  especially painful. Throughout most of his adult life, Workman was an adherent of the Unitarian church; he once confided to a friend that, as a Unitarian, he was “accustomed to vituperation from opposing
                   
                  family moved to Liverpool, England, where he was educated and raised as a Unitarian. On the completion of his formal education, Charles entered the Liverpool office which his father ran for the family firm
                  .” Carman Miller ANQ-M, État civil, Presbytériens, St Andrew’s Church (Montreal), 1830–36; Unitariens, Messiah Unitarian
                  Congregationalist Unitarian Church in Brighton, and Hannah Webster, novelist; d. 4 May 1886 at Montreal
                  his estrangement may have been his second marriage, to Mary Kent Bradbury, a Unitarian from Boston. His first marriage on 4 Jan. 1842 to Frances Michael David, his first cousin, ended with her
                  of the Montreal Times and Commercial Advertiser in order to make it a reliable Reform organ. He accepted and, upon moving to Montreal, became active in the Unitarian community. Hincks soon
                  , 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
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