This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library, deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716) reveals rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise.
This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library, deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716) reveals rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise.
ALAN ARGENT is Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Library, London and minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Brixton. He has edited The Angels' Voice for the London Record Society and is the author of The Richard Baxter Treatises (Boydell, 2018).
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Prologue 1 Dr Williams and his Will 2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721 31 Faith, Fitness and Diligence 3 Constructing the Library Building 1725 30 A Proper Plan 4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731 47 Piety and Charity 5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748 62 Liberty and Liberal Dissent 6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762 95 A Very Respectable Body 7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795 1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850 57 Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light 8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857 93 The Scrupulous Observer 9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886 1914 Introducing Order 10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914 25 Application and Imagination 11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925 46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925 44 A New Age with Old Strains 12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944 66 and Librarian 1946 66 Trusted Innovator 13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966 76 Modest Dependability 14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977 98 Mixed Blessings 15 David Wykes, Director 1998 2021 Past, Present and Future 16 Dr Williams's Trust An Assessment Appendix 1 Trustees in 1723 Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions) Bibliography Index
Prologue 1 Dr Williams and his Will 2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721 31 Faith, Fitness and Diligence 3 Constructing the Library Building 1725 30 A Proper Plan 4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731 47 Piety and Charity 5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748 62 Liberty and Liberal Dissent 6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762 95 A Very Respectable Body 7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795 1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850 57 Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light 8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857 93 The Scrupulous Observer 9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886 1914 Introducing Order 10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914 25 Application and Imagination 11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925 46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925 44 A New Age with Old Strains 12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944 66 and Librarian 1946 66 Trusted Innovator 13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966 76 Modest Dependability 14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977 98 Mixed Blessings 15 David Wykes, Director 1998 2021 Past, Present and Future 16 Dr Williams's Trust An Assessment Appendix 1 Trustees in 1723 Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions) Bibliography Index
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