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JOHN BROWN PATON (1830- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BROWN PATON (1830- )  ,
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British
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Nonconformist divine, was born on the 17th of December 183o . He was educated at
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London, Poole and Spring Hill College,
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Birmingham; he graduated B.A. at London University in 1849, and was
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Hebrew and New Testament prizeman in 1850 and gold medallist in philosophy in 1854 . He received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from
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Glasgow University in 1881 . When the Nottingham Congregational Institute was founded in 1863 he became the first
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principal, a
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post which he held till 1898, when he was succeeded by James Alexander Mitchell (1849-1905), who from 1903 till his
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death was general secretary of the Congregational Union . Paton became
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vice-president of the British and
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Foreign Bible Society in 1907 . He took an active
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part in the foundation and direction of a number of societies for religious and social
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work, notably the
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National Home
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Reading Union Society and
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English
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Land Colonization Society, and was a constant contributor to
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literary reviews . His publications include The Two
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fold Alternative (3rd ed., 1900), The Inner
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Mission of the Church (new ed., 1900), and two volumes of collected essays . His son, John Lewis Paton (b . 1863), who headed the Cambridge classical'tripos in 1886, became head master of Manchester grammar school in 1903 .

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