Author: Fenton, James
Title: The Life And Work Of The Reverend Charles Price, First Independent Minister In Australia
Description: George Robertson & Company, Melbourne, 1886, 1st edition. Cloth, VG+. viii+143pp, b/w engraved frontis, 2 b/w plates, cloth rubbed at the extremities & base of the spine, endpapers a little foxed, but an attractive copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Biography of Charles Price [ 1807 - 1891 ] Congregational Minister who after training in London & Coventry travelled to Tasmania in 1832 to become a minister. Despite finding his expected Hobart congregation dispersed he moved to Launceston for a short while before a brief time in Sydney. He returned to Launceston & finding that the 'Presbyterian and Wesleyan churches had been established, sought to found a Congregational church without undue call on Dissenting generosity. A church was formed on 26 October 1836 and the Tamar Street Chapel opened on 6 September 1837' ( ANDB). He was the first Independent Minister In Australia.

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