James Christopher Street (1832–1911) was an English Unitarian minister and vegetarianism activist.
James Christopher Street | |
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| Born | James Christopher Street 1832 |
| Died | 1911 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Minister |
Career
editStreet was born in Nottingham.[1] Street was superintendent missionary for the Manchester District Unitarian Association in 1858.[1][2] He was minister at the Church of the Divine Unity at Newcastle from 1863 to 1870.[3][4] Whilst in Newcastle he investigated the slums and delivered a lecture The Night Side of Newcastle in 1865.[5][6]
He was minister at the All Souls' Church in Belfast from 1871 to 1889 and at the Church of the Saviour in Birmingham from 1891 to 1895.[3] Street was the founder and secretary of the Ministerial Fellowship which was established in 1899.[7] He retired in 1907 from failing health. He married several times.[1]
Street died in Shrewsbury.[1]
Vegetarianism
editStreet became a vegetarian in the early 1890s for ethical reasons. He believed that animals were the creation of God and it was immoral for humans to take their lives.[8][9] He was president of the Birmingham Vegetarian Society.[10] In 1897, he was a speaker at the Vegetarian Society's fiftieth anniversary conference in Manchester.[11]
Street was chairman of the Vegetarian Federal Union's 1895 autumn congress.[12] He served on the General Council of the Order of the Golden Age in 1898.[13] In 1907, he was a speaker at the 60th Anniversary of the Vegetarian Society in Manchester.[14]
Selected publications
edit- Unitarian Missionary Papers: Consisting of The Religious Condition of the People (with George Beaumont and William Binns, 1861)
- Winter Travels In Sunny Climes (1875)
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Rev. J. C. Street". The Irish Times. February 3, 1911. p. 5. (subscription required)
- ^ McLachlan, Herbert (1915). The Unitarian Home Missionary College, 1854–1914 (PDF). Sherratt and Hues. p. 116.
- ^ a b Evans, George Eyre (1897). Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (PDF). F. & E. Gibbons. pp. 25, 116, 172.
- ^ "Church of the Divine Unity". The National Archives. 2024. Archived from the original on December 7, 2024.
- ^ Large, Maurice (2019). "A History of the Newcastle upon Tyne Unitarian Church, through the lives of its ministers, their assistants, and other notable figures from our history" (PDF). Newcastle Unitarians. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 8, 2024.
- ^ Staveley-Wadham, Rose (2021). "Hot Off the Press – New Titles This Week". The British Newspaper Archive. Archived from the original on December 8, 2024.
- ^ "The Ministerial Fellowship" (PDF). The Christian Life. 2: 220. 1913.
- ^ "The Vegetarian Society". The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. October 23, 1894. p. 6. (subscription required)
- ^ "Reasons for Vegetarianism". The Western Daily Press. May 4, 1909. p. 7. (subscription required)
- ^ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. p. 111.
- ^ "The Vegetarian Society's Jubilee Conference in Manchester". The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. October 19, 1897. p. 8. (subscription required)
- ^ "Vegetarian Federal Union 1889-1911". International Vegetarian Union. 2024. Archived from the original on December 8, 2024.
- ^ "The Order of the Golden Age" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 3 (2).
- ^ "International Vegetarian Congress 1907". International Vegetarian Union. 2024. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024.