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= William_Urwick_the_younger =
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Introduction
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William Urwick the younger (1826-1905) was an Anglo-Irish
nonconformist minister and antiquarian chronicler.
Life
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Born at Sligo on 8 March 1826, he was second son of William Urwick the
elder (1791-1868), nonconformist divine, and his wife Sarah
(1791-1852), daughter of Thomas Cooke of Shrewsbury. His early
education was under his father. He graduated at Trinity College,
Dublin, B.A. in 1848, M.A. in 1851. From Dublin he went on to the
Lancashire Independent College, Manchester, where he studied (1848-51)
under Robert Vaughan and Samuel Davidson.
On 19 June 1851 Urwick was ordained minister at Hatherlow, Cheshire,
where he remained for twenty-three years, as pastor, and district
secretary (later, president) of the Cheshire Congregational Union.
Moving to London, he filled (1874-7) the chair of Hebrew and Old
Testament exegesis at New College, London. Still living in London, he
became in 1880 minister of Spicer Street chapel in St. Albans, where
he rebuilt the Sunday schools, improved the church premises, and
undertook temperance and other social work, resigning in 1895.
On a visit to his sisters in the old family home at Dublin, Urwick
died there on 20 August 1905.
Works
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Urwick published:
* 'Historical Sketches of Nonconformity in the County Palatine of
Chester', 1864; a collection of papers by local ministers and laymen,
and Urwick's own work in it was criticised by Henry David Roberts in
'Matthew Henry and his Chapel' (1901).
* 'Life and Letters of William Urwick, D.D.', 1870, on his father.
* 'Ecumenical Councils', 6 pts. 1870.
* 'Errors of Ritualism', Manchester, 1872 (lectures).
* 'The Nonconformists and the Education Act', 1872.
* 'The Papacy and the Bible', Manchester, 1874, in controversy with
Kenelm Vaughan.
* 'The Servant of Jehovah', 1877 (commentary on Isaiah lii. 13-liii.
12).
* 'Indian Pictures', 1881.
* 'Nonconformity in Herts' (1884)
* 'Bible Truths and Church Errors', 1888, arguing to prove John Bunyan
was not a Baptist.
* 'Early History of Trinity College, Dublin' (1892)
* 'Nonconformity in Worcester' (1897);
He also translated from the German:
* H. Martensen's 'Christian Dogmatics' (1886);
* J. Müller's 'Christian Doctrine of Sin' (1868, 2 vols.);
* Friedrich Bleek's 'Introduction to the New Testament' (1869-70, 2
vols.);
* H. Cremer's 'Biblicotheological Lexicon of New Testament Greek'
(1872).
Urwick edited his father's 'Biographic Sketches of J. D. Latouche'
(1868), and T. A. Urwick's 'Records of the Family of … Urwick' (1893).
Family
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Urwick married on 1 June 1859 Sophia (1832-1897), daughter of Thomas
Hunter of Manchester. They had four sons and five daughters.
Notes
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