Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795 in

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, Isle of Wight – 1863, in London) was an evangelical Church of England clergyman and teacher of

elocution Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compelli ...

Life

Algernon Sydney Thelwall was the eldest son of the poet, radical and orator John Thelwall. He was named after the 17th-century republican

Algernon Sydney Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England ...

showing his father's political leanings. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating 18th Wrangler in 1818. Ordained in 1819, he was English chaplain and missionary to the Jews in Amsterdam from 1819 to 1826. In 1828 he married Georgiana Anne Tahourdin, and in 1829 became curate of Blackford, near Wedmore, Somerset. He was a founder of the Trinitarian Bible Society in 1831, and the Society's secretary from 1836 to 1847. An anti-Catholic, he was active on behalf of the Protestant committee opposing the Maynooth Grant in 1845. In 1850 Thelwall was appointed Lecturer on Elocution and Public Reading within the theology department of

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. He died on 30 March 1863 and is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. His grave (no.12742) no longer has a headstone or any memorial. The clergyman and scholar

Sydney Thelwall Sydney Thelwall (born 18 December 1834 — 28 August 1922) was an English clergyman and Christian scholar. Life The son of Algernon Sydney Thelwall, Sydney Thelwall was educated at King's College London. He was admitted as a pensioner to Chri ...

was a son of Algernon Thelwall.

Works

*''Sermons'', 1833 *''The iniquities of the opium trade with China'', 1839. In Internet Archive. *''The idolatry of the church of Rome'', 1844. In Internet Archive. *''Proceedings of the Anti-Maynooth Conference of 1845 : with a historical introduction and an appendix'', 1845. In Internet Archive. *''The Reading Desk and the Pulpit'', 1861

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