Thomas Allin (Methodist)

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Thomas Allin (1784–1866) was an English ordained minister in the Methodist New Connexion,[1][2] a breakaway denomination of the Methodist Church, which was established in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent in 1797. Thomas Allin was born in Shropshire, England, on 10 February 1784. He died on 6 November 1866.

Selected works[edit]

  • To the Wesleyan Methodist delegates assembled in Manchester 1834
  • Vindication of the Methodist New Connexion 1841

References[edit]

  1. ^ George John Stevenson, Methodist Worthies: characteristic sketches of Methodist preachers; Vol. 4 1885 "After Alexander Kilham, no man, perhaps, has influenced the New Connexion so much as Thomas Allin. He was the Richard Watson of that body, but he had a far more ardent nature"
  2. ^ Edwin Warriner Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, N.Y. 1885 "J. Lowe, of the Episcopal Church. In his eighteenth year he began to labor as a local preacher on the Glossop circuit, in the Manchester district. After attending the Rev. Thomas Allin's theological school in Altringham.."