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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.
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.
Simeon baronets of Grazeley; Crest: A fox passant-reguardant Proper in the mouth a trefoil slipped Vert. Shield: Per fess Sable and Or a pale counterchanged in chief an ermine spot of the first between two trefoils slipped of the second and in base a like trefoil between two like ermine spots.
Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was a leading evangelical cleric. Charles Simeon was the most influential leader of evangelical Anglicanism. He established the Simeon Trust, a fund that became a major source of evangelical patronage. By the time of his death, the Trust controlled the livings of 42 churches, including Bath Abbey.
[2] [3] He was a close friend of Charles Simeon, a founder of the Church Missionary Society in 1799. He was ordained a Church of England deacon in 1819, and priest in 1821, and soon afterwards took the curacy of St Dunstan-in-the-West. [4] In practice it was a sole charge. He returned to Cambridge in 1824, where he was a lecturer, and then a tutor.
The society was active in the establishment of Christ Church, Jerusalem, the oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, completed in 1849. [11] In 1863, the society purchased property outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. In 1897, they opened a hospital on the site, designed by architect Arthur Beresford Pite. Today, the building ...
These were reformists and abolitionists, being contemporary terms as the 'Sect' was – until 1844 – unnamed. They figured and heard readings, sermons and lessons from prominent and wealthy Evangelical Anglicans who called for the liberation of slaves, [8] abolition of the slave trade and the reform of the penal system, and recognised and advocated other cornerstone civil-political rights ...