Thomas Allin (Methodist)

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.

Works (selected)

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

References

  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.."



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