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EDWARD MIALL (1809-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:MIALL (1809-1881)  , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine and journalist, was See also:born at See also:Portsmouth on the 8th of May 1809 . He was Congregational See also:minister at See also:Ware (1831) and See also:Leicester (1834), and in 1841 founded the Nonconformist, a weekly newspaper in which he advocated the cause of disestablishment . See also:Miall saw that if the See also:programme of See also:Nonconformity was to be carried through it must have more effective See also:representation in See also:Parliament . One of the firstfruits of his See also:work was the entrance of See also:John See also:Bright into See also:parliamentary See also:life; and by 1852 See also:forty Dissenters were members of the See also:House of See also:Commons . This was due largely to the efforts of the See also:Anti-See also:State See also:Church Association, afterwards known as the Liberation Society, which Miall had founded in 1844 . The See also:long fight for the abolition of compulsory church-rates was finally successful in 1868, and then in 1870 Miall was prominent in the discussions aroused by the See also:Education See also:Bill . He was at this See also:time M.P. for See also:Bradford (1869-1874), having previously (1852-1867) sat for See also:Rochdale . In 1874 he retired from public life, and received from' his admirers a See also:present of ten thousand guineas . He died at See also:Sevenoaks on the 29th of See also:April 1881 . See the Life, by A . Miall (1884) .

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