Trustees of Charles Simeon: Correspondence, Minutes and Papers 1798-1981

Simeon, Charles, 1759-1836

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English divine and author. From the description of Advantages of the spiritual man (I Cor. 2, 15, 16) : autograph copy of a sermon. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661976 Charles Simeon, born in Reading on 24 September 1759, was the fourth son of Richard Simeon and Elizabeth Hutton. While a student at King's College, Cambridge, he experienced a dramatic conversion on Easter Day, 1779. After earning his BA, he was ordained on 28 September 1783. Sime...

Simeon Trustees 1836-1981

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The Revd Charles Simeon and his Trustees

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The Revd Charles Simeon (1759-1836), Fellow of King's College and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, began to purchase advowsons in 1817 in order to secure an Evangelical ministry in perpetuity in important centres. Friends contributed money for the purpose and some were associated with Simeon as Trustees of the livings. In 1829 Simeon drew up a 'Solemn Charge' to his Trustees, setting out the principles on which they were to make appointments, which was printed in 1833. In January 1836 a ...