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style="display:inline" class="fn">George Dawson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Dawson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/George_Dawson.jpg/220px-George_Dawson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/George_Dawson.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="390" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1821-02-24</span>)</span>24 February 1821<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 November 1876<span style="display:none">(1876-11-30)</span> (aged 55)<br /><a href="/wiki/Kings_Norton" title="Kings Norton">Kings Norton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Key_Hill_Cemetery" title="Key Hill Cemetery">Key Hill Cemetery</a>, Birmingham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">Nonconformist</a> <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Marischal_College" title="Marischal College">Marischal College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Dawson</b> (24 February 1821 – 30 November 1876) was an <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">nonconformist</a> preacher, lecturer and activist. He was an influential voice in the calls for radical political and social reform in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, a philosophy that became known as the <a href="/wiki/Civic_Gospel" title="Civic Gospel">Civic Gospel</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ministry">Ministry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ministry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Young_George_Dawson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Young_George_Dawson.jpg/170px-Young_George_Dawson.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Young_George_Dawson.jpg/255px-Young_George_Dawson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Young_George_Dawson.jpg/340px-Young_George_Dawson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1125" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>An engraving of Dawson, c.1852</figcaption></figure> <p>Dawson was born in <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Square" title="Brunswick Square">Brunswick Square</a>, London, in 1821. His father was headmaster of a <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> school. He was educated at home, then at <a href="/wiki/Marischal_College" title="Marischal College">Marischal College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>. Oxford and Cambridge seemed not an option as, owing to the <a href="/wiki/Test_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Test Act">Test Act</a>, for centuries up to 1828 only Anglicans were allowed to matriculate (Oxford) or graduate (Cambridge). </p><p>In 1843 Dawson accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church at <a href="/wiki/Rickmansworth" title="Rickmansworth">Rickmansworth</a>. He moved to the rapidly expanding industrial town of Birmingham in 1844 to become minister of the Mount Zion Baptist Chapel where the eloquence and beliefs that the young man expressed soon attracted a large following. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Saviour,_Birmingham.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Church_of_the_Saviour%2C_Birmingham.jpg/220px-Church_of_the_Saviour%2C_Birmingham.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Church_of_the_Saviour%2C_Birmingham.jpg/330px-Church_of_the_Saviour%2C_Birmingham.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Church_of_the_Saviour%2C_Birmingham.jpg/440px-Church_of_the_Saviour%2C_Birmingham.jpg 2x" data-file-width="573" data-file-height="431" /></a><figcaption>The Unitarian Church of the Saviour in Edward Street, Birmingham (1847–1895)</figcaption></figure> <p>However, Dawson's views did not fit the orthodoxy of the Baptist church, so in 1845 he left, followed by much of his congregation, to become minister of the theologically liberal <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Saviour_(Birmingham)" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of the Saviour (Birmingham)">Church of the Saviour</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarian</a> church erected for him by his supporters, where "no pledge was required, of minister or congregation; no form of belief was implied by membership; no difference in creed was allowed to bar union in practical Christian work". </p><p>The key doctrine preached there was inscribed on a marble tablet above the entrance: "There is but one law – thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civic_Gospel">Civic Gospel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Civic Gospel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Church of the Saviour, Dawson developed the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Civic_Gospel" title="Civic Gospel">Civic Gospel</a>. He called upon his congregation to join him in the struggle "to improve conditions in the town and the quality of life enjoyed by its citizens". His sermons were unconventional for the time, it was said that Dawson "preached not as a dying man to dying men – that was the old idea of preaching – but as a living man to living men who found life no simple or easy matter". His sermons electrified the Birmingham public and influential members of his Church included <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a> (who took Sunday School and oversaw the accounts), <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Collings" title="Jesse Collings">Jesse Collings</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Dixon_(MP)" title="George Dixon (MP)">George Dixon</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Alfred_Langford" title="John Alfred Langford">J. A. Langford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martineau_family" title="Martineau family">Robert Martineau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Timmins" title="Samuel Timmins">Samuel Timmins</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Harris_(Birmingham_Liberal)" title="William Harris (Birmingham Liberal)">William Harris</a>, <a href="/wiki/A._Follett_Osler" title="A. Follett Osler">A. F. Osler</a>, and the Kenrick family, all of whom played an important part in local affairs and took on his ideals.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1847 and 1867, 17 members of his congregation were elected to the Town Council, six of whom were elected <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Birmingham" title="List of mayors of Birmingham">mayor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From his pulpit and in public lectures and articles, Dawson advised Christians (particularly people experienced in business) to become councillors and help transform the City, a call which <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a> answered in his work first as Councillor, then as a visionary social reforming <a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_Birmingham" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Mayor of Birmingham">Mayor</a>. His idea of the civic gospel and his advocacy of free education was strongly supported by the Congregational spokesman <a href="/wiki/Robert_William_Dale" title="Robert William Dale">Dr. R. W. Dale</a>, and by <a href="/wiki/John_Thackray_Bunce" title="John Thackray Bunce">J. T. Bunce</a>, influential editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Daily_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham Daily Post">Birmingham Daily Post</a></i>. Both Dawson and Dale were disqualified as ministers from seats on the town council, but both served on the Birmingham school board. Dawson strongly advocated to the worshippers in his Church and in Birmingham the idea of service in politics as a civic duty and as service to God. </p><p>Dawson's radicalism did not meet with universal approval. A correspondent writing to <i><a href="/wiki/Aris%27s_Birmingham_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="Aris's Birmingham Gazette">Aris's Birmingham Gazette</a></i> in 1847 described him as a person "whose views and proceedings are calculated to produce considerable mischief"; and as "a young man who ... has prided and plumed himself upon more than he possesses and has consequently fallen into great and grievous errors".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Views">Views</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Dawson_bust.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/George_Dawson_bust.jpg/170px-George_Dawson_bust.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/George_Dawson_bust.jpg/255px-George_Dawson_bust.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/George_Dawson_bust.jpg/340px-George_Dawson_bust.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1952" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Bust of Dawson in the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Birmingham" title="Library of Birmingham">Library of Birmingham</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Dawson did not consider himself to be a <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarian</a>, although modern Unitarians count him as one of their own (he is listed by the Midland Unitarian Union as a great nineteenth-century Unitarian).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left the <a href="/wiki/Baptist_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist Church">Baptist Church</a> to be free of any definite creed or doctrinal rigidity. </p><p>"True Religion", Dawson believed, was "social, unitive, and brotherly in its spirit: it produces the church as its social development". For him, Christianity was "a set of fruitful principles", not a code of laws or a theological dogma. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_interests">Other interests</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other interests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg/170px-Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="347" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg/255px-Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg/340px-Dawson_Memorial_Key_Hill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2788" data-file-height="5691" /></a><figcaption>Dawson's memorial in <a href="/wiki/Key_Hill_Cemetery" title="Key Hill Cemetery">Key Hill Cemetery</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Dawson was famous during his lifetime for lecturing on a wide range of subjects from Shakespeare to German poetry, Italian history to good etiquette. He became a national figure, in demand as a lecturer throughout the country. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a> described him as "the greatest talker in England". Dawson was a friend of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Carlyle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Emerson</a> and did a great deal to popularize their teachings, especially in his demand for a high ethical standard in everyday life and his insistence that citizenship needed a specifically Christian approach. </p><p>Dawson also lectured on English literature at the <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_and_Midland_Institute" title="Birmingham and Midland Institute">Birmingham and Midland Institute</a> and helped to found the Shakespeare Memorial Library in Birmingham. His address at the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Central_Library" title="Birmingham Central Library">Birmingham Reference Library</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gives a flavour of what the civic gospel meant to the Victorian municipal activists: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The opening of this glorious library, the first fruits of a clear understanding that a great town exists to discharge towards the people of that town the duties that a great nation exists to discharge towards the people of that nation – that a town exists here by the grace of God, that a great town is a solemn organism through which should flow, and in which should be shaped, all the highest, loftiest, and truest ends of man's intellectual and moral nature... We are a Corporation, who have undertaken the highest duty that is possible to us; we have made provision for our people – for all our people – and we have made a provision of God's greatest and best gifts unto Man.</p></blockquote> <p>Dawson died suddenly at <a href="/wiki/Kings_Norton" title="Kings Norton">Kings Norton</a> on 30 November 1876 and was buried in <a href="/wiki/Key_Hill_Cemetery" title="Key Hill Cemetery">Key Hill Cemetery</a>. </p><p>Four volumes of Dawson's <i>Sermons</i>, two of <i>Prayers</i> and two of <i>Biographical Lectures</i> were published after his death. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dawson married Susan Fanny Crompton (1820–1878) in 1846. They had two children, Rachel Annie (1846–1873) and Bernard (1851–1900).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rachel, "from some inexplicable arrest in the bones of her skull at an early age ... was almost an imbecile".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her early death in May 1873 sent Dawson into a temporary fit of depression. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_biography">Published biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Published biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following Dawson's death in 1876, his friend <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Timmins" title="Samuel Timmins">Sam Timmins</a> was asked to write his biography, with additional contributions to be provided by G. J. Johnson, <a href="/wiki/John_Daniel_Morell" title="John Daniel Morell">J. D. Morell</a> (a contemporary of Dawson at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>) and <a href="/wiki/J._H._Chamberlain" class="mw-redirect" title="J. H. Chamberlain">J. H. Chamberlain</a>. Timmins began to gather materials, but "it was a long time before any part of his manuscript was sent to the printer's"; and, when it was, it was destroyed in a fire. Timmins lost enthusiasm – "all the eagerness with which he undertook the task had oozed away" – and the work remained unfinished at his death in 1902. The task and materials passed to Wright Wilson (son of Joseph Wilson, another of Dawson's friends) and was eventually published in 1905, including the contributions from Johnson, Morell and Chamberlain, another from <a href="/wiki/Sebastian_Evans" title="Sebastian Evans">Sebastian Evans</a>, and a reprinted newspaper article by <a href="/wiki/David_Christie_Murray" title="David Christie Murray">David Christie Murray</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Dawson,_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/George_Dawson%2C_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg/220px-George_Dawson%2C_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/George_Dawson%2C_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg/330px-George_Dawson%2C_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/George_Dawson%2C_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg/440px-George_Dawson%2C_Chamberlain_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1706055.jpg 2x" data-file-width="959" data-file-height="639" /></a><figcaption>The statue of George Dawson when in Edmund Street</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg/220px-Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg/330px-Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg/440px-Museum_Collections_Centre_-_25_Dollman_Street_-_Garage_-_Statue_of_George_Dawson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>The statue of Dawson now in storage at the Birmingham Museum Collections Centre</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commemoration">Commemoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Commemoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A statue of Dawson formerly stood in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Square,_Birmingham" title="Victoria Square, Birmingham">Victoria Square, Birmingham</a>; and later in <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Street" title="Edmund Street">Edmund Street</a>, nearby. It is currently in store at <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" title="Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery">Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery</a>'s Museum Collections Centre, awaiting restoration and repair. </p><p>A bust of Dawson is now on the ninth floor of the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Birmingham" title="Library of Birmingham">Library of Birmingham</a>. </p><p>A room is named after him at <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_%26_Midland_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham & Midland Institute">The Birmingham & Midland Institute</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Dawson_(preacher)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson 1905, p. 61.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson 1905, p. 152.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFD.1847" class="citation news cs1">D. (4 October 1847). "[Letter]". <i><a href="/wiki/Aris%27s_Birmingham_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="Aris's Birmingham Gazette">Aris's Birmingham Gazette</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Aris%27s+Birmingham+Gazette&rft.atitle=%5BLetter%5D&rft.date=1847-10-04&rft.au=D.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Dawson+%28preacher%29" class="Z3988"></span> Quoted in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts2015" class="citation book cs1">Roberts, Stephen (2015). <i>Now Mr Editor! Letters to the newspapers of nineteenth-century Birmingham</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 April</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Midland+Union+-+Our+History&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.midlandunion.org.uk%2Fhistory.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Dawson+%28preacher%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070630154324/http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=45002&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260">"The first Birmingham Central Library"</a>. 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(1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Dawson,_George" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Dawson, George">Dawson, George</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 874.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Dawson%2C+George&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=874&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Dawson+%28preacher%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Records: Church of the Saviour Founded and built 1847–95; Library of Birmingham (258925; 259532; 260167 George Dawson Collection; 264036).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBriggs1990" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Asa_Briggs" title="Asa Briggs">Briggs, Asa</a> (1990) [1963]. <i>Victorian Cities</i> (3rd ed.). 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