His father had been a non-juring clergyman, one of the many ejected from their livings on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662; and he himself had been educated as a Nonconformist at Mr. Morton's famous academy on Newington Green, where Daniel Defoe had preceded him as a pupil, and where he had heard John Bunyan preach.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It virtually appoints the archbishops, bishops and most of the deans and canons, and has in its gift many rectorships and other livings.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
In 1887 it adopted resolutions in favour of fair trade, woman suffrage, and reforms in the tenure and sale of Church livings; but although Lord Salisbury, then Prime Minister, in a public speech immediately afterward said, "More and more in this day political leading and the making of political opinion must be a matter of local effort," and although he referred to agricultural distress, and the forthcoming budget, he made no allusion to fair trade, or for that matter to woman suffrage or Church livings.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell