John Alfred Langford
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John Alfred Langford was an English journalist, poet and antiquary in Birmingham.
John Alfred Langford, 1863 portrait
George Dawson (preacher)
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George Dawson was an English nonconformist preacher, lecturer and activist. He was an influential voice in the calls for radical political and social reform in Birmingham, a philosophy that became kno
John Alfred Langford
…became secretary of the newly established Birmingham Co-operative Society. In August 1847 he joined the new Unitarian Church of the Saviour, founded by George Dawson, originator of the doctrine of the "Civic Gospel". In the winter of 1850–1 he taught evening classes in the schools of Dawson's church, gave up…
George Dawson
An engraving of Dawson, c.1852
The Unitarian Church of the Saviour in Edward Street, Birmingham (1847–1895)
Bust of Dawson in the Library of Birmingham