Christopher Newman Hall, born at Maidstone and known in later life as a 'Dissenter's Bishop', was one of the most celebrated nineteenth century English Nonconformist divines. He was active in social causes; supporting Abraham Lincoln and abolition of slavery during the American Civil War, the Chartist cause, and arranging for influential Nonconformists to meet Gladstone. His tract Come to Jesus, first published in 1848 also contributed to his becoming a household name throughout Britain, the US and further afield, supposedly selling four million copies worldwide over his lifetime.
Christopher Newman Hall; a Woodburytype photograph published in Men of Mark, 1877
Photograph of Newman Hall taken c.1865
carte de visite of Newman Hall taken c.1865
Newman Hall by Montbard in Vanity Fair, 1872
James Sherman, was an English Congregationalist minister. He was an abolitionist, and a popular preacher at The Castle Street Chapel in Reading from 1821 to 1836. He and his second wife Martha Sherman made a success of Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars, London from 1836−54. Martha died in 1848.
Rev James Sherman, engraved for The Evangelical Magazine & Missionary Chronicle
Martha Sherman
The modern marker stone to Rev James Sherman, Abney Park Cemetery, London
Memorial to Rev. James Sherman and Martha Sherman at Abney Park Cemetery, London
