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See also:ANDREW See also:REED (1787-1862)
, See also:English See also:nonconformist divine and philanthropist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of See also:November 1787
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He entered See also:Hackney See also:Independent See also:College in 1807 and was ordained See also:minister of New Road See also:Chapel in 1811
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About 183o he built the larger Wycliffe Chapel, where he remained until 1861
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He visited See also:America on a deputation to the Congregational Churches in 1834 and received the degree of D.D. from Yale
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See also:Reed's name is permanently associated with a See also:long See also:list of philanthropic achievements, including the London See also:Orphan See also:Asylum, the See also:Infant Orphan Asylum and the Reedham Orphanage, which he undertook on non-denominational lines because the See also:governors of the other institutions had made the See also:Anglican See also:Catechism compulsory
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Besides these he originated in 1847 an asylum for idiots at See also:Highgate, after-wards moved to Earlswood in See also:Surrey with a See also:branch at See also:Colchester, and in 1855 the Royal See also:Hospital for Incurables at Putney
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He died on the 25th of See also:February 1862
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Besides an See also:account of his visit to America (2 vols., 1834), he compiled a hymn-See also:book (1841), and published some sermons and books of devotion
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His second son, See also:SIR See also: His eldest son, Charles See also:Edward See also:Baines Reed (1845-1884) was educated at Trinity College, See also:Cambridge, and became Congregational minister at See also:Warminster (1871) and a secretary of the See also:British and See also:Foreign Bible Society . He was killed by a fall in See also:Switzerland . Sir Charles Reed's this ,i son, See also:Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893), educated at the City of London School, became managing director of his See also:father's See also:firm, and was one of the founders and secretary of the See also:Bibliographical Society . He is best known as the author of popular boys' books . |
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