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The Simeon's Trustees, of what was called the Simeon Fund, are responsible for the patronage (or a share of the patronage) in over 160 Church of England parishes. [15] There is also a Charles Simeon Trust, founded in 2001, [16] and the Charles Simeon Institute, established in 2014, [17] that operate in the United States and Canada.
Of the 52 stations 18 are in England, 3 in Austria, 1 in France, 4 in Germany, 2 in the Netherlands, 1 in Italy, 4 in Rumania, 1 in Russia, 1 in Constantinople; in Asia there are 10 stations, among them Jerusalem with 27 workers; in Africa there are 7 stations. About 5,000 Jews have been baptized by the society since its foundation.
Charles Simeon was born in Grazeley, Berkshire, England in 1816 into a wealthy family. [1] [2] He was baptised in St Helens on the Isle of Wight, where his family came from.. He was the second son of Sir Richard Simeon, 2nd Baronet and his wife Louisa Edith Barrington, the oldest daughter of Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, 10th Baron
The logo of Church Missionary Society in 1799. The original proposal for the mission came from Charles Grant and George Udny of the East India Company and David Brown, of Calcutta, who sent a proposal in 1787 to William Wilberforce, then a young member of parliament, and Charles Simeon, a young clergyman at Cambridge University.
Charles Fitzmaurice Creighton Simeons DL (22 September 1921 – 3 August 2014) was a British Conservative Party politician and pollution control consultant. Early life and career [ edit ]
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His last political act, on 8 April 1870, was to speak in Parliament against a measure proposed by Charles Newdigate Newdegate for the state inspection of convents, despite being seriously ill at the time. Bursting a blood-vessel in his throat, he set off on a journey to Switzerland to recover his health but died en route while in Freiburg, aged 55.
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