Algernon Sydney Thelwall

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

Algernon Sydney Thelwall was the eldest son of John Thelwall. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating 18th Wrangler in 1818. 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. [ [http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/cce/apps/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=40721 entry] at the Clergy of the Church of England database] 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.

Works

*"Sermons", 1833
*"The iniquities of the opium trade with China", 1839. In Internet Archive.
*"The idolatry of the church of Rome", 1844. In Internet Archive.
*"Proceedings of the Anti-Maynooth Conference of 1845 : with a historical introduction and an appendix", 1845. In Internet Archive.
*"The Reading Desk and the Pulpit", 1861

References

*M. C. Curthoys, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27165 ‘Thelwall, Algernon Sydney (1795–1863)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 20 Dec 2007

External links

*worldcat id|lccn-n88-67953
* [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Thelwall%2C%20A.%20S.%20(Algernon%20Sydney)%2C%201795-1863%22 E-books by Thelwall] at the Internet Archive