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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.
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.
Following curacies at Beverley Minster and St John the Evangelist Church, Woodley, [6] he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Meole Brace from 1991 to 2009. He is a director of the Simeon Trustees , a trust established in the nineteenth century by Charles Simeon to purchase advowsons for Anglican ministers aligned with the Evangelical Anglicanism .
Charles, who became king last year after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, set up the charity in 1976 to tackle high youth unemployment and so far it has supported over a million young ...
He received his education at Christ Church, Oxford, from where he graduated with a BA in 1837. [2] His first marriage was on 26 November 1840 to Jane Maria Baker, daughter of Sir Frederick Francis Baker, 2nd Baronet. Sir John Simeon, 4th Baronet and Sir Edmund Charles Simeon, 5th Baronet were sons from this marriage.
[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.