Robert Whitaker McAll
Robert Whitaker McAll (born December 17, 1821 in St Ives , † May 18, 1893 in Paris ) was a British congretionalist preacher .
Life
His parents were Pastors Robert Stephens McAll and Sarah Whitaker. McAll grew up in Macclesfield , Cheshire . He studied theology at the Lancashire Independent College . From 1848 to 1855 he was pastor of a congregational church in Sunderland , then until 1866 in the same function in Leicester . After brief work in Manchester and Birmingham , he went to Hadleigh in 1869 .
In August 1871 he traveled with his wife to Paris to preach the gospel to the workers after the defeat of the Paris Commune . Here he was asked to work permanently as a pastor in the Parisian worker districts. He returned to England only briefly, to settle in Belleville in November 1871 . Here he founded the Mission aux Ouvriers de Paris in 1872 , which soon established branches in other French cities and was renamed Mission populaire évangélique in 1879 . When McAll died in 1893, there were 136 branches in 57 cities. It is still active today.
McAll had been married to Elizabeth Siddall Hayward since 1847.
Awards and prizes (selection)
- 1892: Legion of Honor
- 1879: Medal of the Société nationale d'encouragement au bien
- 1880: Medal of the Société libre d'Instruction et d'Éducation Populaires
Literature (selection)
- Sébastian Fath: You ghetto au réseau. Le protestantisme évangélique en France 1800-2005 , Histoire et société N ° 47, Labor et Fides, 2005, ISBN 2-8309-1139-3 , pp. 49-395
- Elizabeth Siddall Hayward McAll: Robert Whitaker McAll, founder of the McAll mission Fleming H. Revell Company, London 1896 ( as PDF file ).
- Jean-Paul Morley: 1871–1984, la mission populaire évangélique: les surprises d'un engagement. Les Bergers et les Mages, Paris 1993, p. 205, ISBN 978-2853041072 .
Web links
- Museumsprotestant.org: La Mission populaire evangelique
- Missionpopulaire.org
- Literature by and about Robert Whitaker McAll in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McAll, Robert Whitaker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British clergyman, founder of the Mission populaire évangélique |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St Ives |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1893 |
| Place of death | Paris |