Alexander Gordon (9 June 1841 – 21 February 1931) was an English Unitarian minister and religious historian. A prolific contributor to the ''

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'', he wrote for it well over 700 articles dealing mainly with nonconformists.

Life

Gordon was born in Coventry, the son of John Gordon, a Unitarian minister. He was an undergraduate at the

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from 1856 to 1859, then trained at

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in London, and studied under Ignaz von Döllinger in Munich. He was a minister at Aberdeen, at Hope Street Unitarian Chapel in Liverpool alongside

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, and at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, before settling in Belfast in 1877 at its First Presbyterian Church. He was Principal of the Unitarian Home Missionary College, Manchester, from 1890 to 1911.

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1841 births 1931 deaths People from Coventry Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 19th-century British historians English Unitarian ministers Historians of Puritanism Irish non-subscribing Presbyterian ministers Alumni of Harris Manchester College, Oxford 20th-century British historians {{England-historian-stub