Francis Charles Hastings Russell ninth Duke of Bedford

Many people of consequence attended these gatherings, including Alfred Lyttelton , Sydney Buxton , the Hon. William Peel , George Duckworth , Lord Brownlow , Henry Wheatley , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford .

Originally the activities of the settlement revolved around lectures on biblical criticism, but the student residents resisted the broad Christian mandate and pushed the organisation towards more practical social work. Those in disagreement with the...