James martineau

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James martineau: James Martineau was a British

An English Unitarian divine, brother of the preceding. He was born at Norwich, April 21, He was educated for the ministry at Manchester College Unitarian , which was then located at York, and was graduated in He spent one year teaching in Bristol and then, October 26, , he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in Dublin. From Dublin he went to Liverpool, where he was settled over Paradise Street Chapel, and eked out his income by taking pupils.

Here he attracted considerable attention by engaging, along with J. Thom and Henry Giles, in a controversy against some clergymen of the Church of England on the subject of Unitarianism. Soon afterwards Martineau was elected professor of mental and moral philosophy at Manchester New College, and continued to lecture in the college when it was removed to London in , though he also retained his pulpit in Liverpool for four years.

In he took up his residence in London. The next year he added to his work the task of sharing the pulpit of Little Portland Street Chapel with J.