‘William Sharman Crawford
and his Interaction with Irish Presbyterians’

by
Professor Peter Gray
Queen's University, Belfast

on
Thursday, 5th May 2022
at 8.00 p.m.

in
Union Theological College,
108 Botanic Avenue,
Belfast BT7 1JT

Some car-parking available in the grounds of College
and also at Queen’s University McClay Library

Everyone welcome             Refreshments provided

William Sharman Crawford was the leading Ulster-based radical reformer of the mid-19th century and a supporter of land reform and the extension of the franchise.   Though Anglican by birth, he obtained strong support from the Presbyterian clergy and tenant farmers of County Down.  The talk will look at his interventions in the contentious politics of religion and identity in the 1830s-50s and consider the reasons for his personal conversion to Unitarianism towards the end of his life.

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