United Reformed Church

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Occupation	Maude Royden	MR gave her first sermon in a church: at London's City Temple, a Congregational church where she preached on The Laws of Life. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 152 Royden, Maude. The Church and Woman. J. Clarke, 1924. 123n1 and 124n
Occupation	Maude Royden	MR accepted the position of assistant preacher to Dr Fort Newton at a leading Congregational church, the City Temple. Some sources give the date as 16 September, a Sunday. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 171 Royden, Maude. The Church and Woman. J. Clarke, 1924. 123n1 and 124n “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (31 July 1956): 10

Timeline

1907

Hatty Baker began to act as the first female Congregational minister in Britain, though without official sanction.

Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.

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Bebbington, D. W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain. A history from the 1730s to the 1980s. Routledge, 1989.

206

17 September 1917

Constance Todd , later Constance Coltman, became the first woman to be ordained to the ministry (of the Congregational Church) in England.

506, 509

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Another very early minister in the Congregational church was Hatty Baker

1972

The United Reformed Church was formed by the union of the Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England .

Eliade, Mircea, and Charles J. Adams, editors. The Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan, 1987, 16 vols.

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