I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian, known for his anti-apartheid and human rights activities. He was the Bishop of Johannesburg (1985-69 and then Archbishop of Cape Town (1986-96). In both cases he was the first black African to hold the position. Theologically he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology. In 1986 he became the president of the All Africa Conference of Churches. In 1994 Nelson Mandela selected Desmond to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
1994 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Desmond’s father, Zachariah Zelilo Tutu trained as a primary school teacher. His parents both spoke the Xhosa language. Desmond described his family *although we weren’t affluent, we were not destitute either .
He was sickly from birth. He had polio which resulted in atrophy (lack of growth) of his right hand. On one occasion he was hospitalized with serious burns.
The family was initially Methodist and he was baptized in June 1932. They then changed denominations, first to African Episcopal Church then to the Anglican church.
He trained as a teacher and married Nomalizo Leah Shenxane in 1955. They had 4 children.
In 1960 he was ordained as an Anglican priest. In 1962 he moved to the U.K. to study Theology at King’s College, London. He is now a fellow of the college.
In 1966 he returned to southern Africa. He taught at the Federal Theological Seminary and then the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
In 1972 he became the Theological Education director; based in London but requiring regular visits to to the African continent.
In 1975, back on southern Africa he became dean of st. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg, then bishop of Lesotho.
1978-85 became general secretary of South African Council of Churches. He emerged as one of South Africa’s most prominent anti=apartheid activists
Also In 1985 he became Bishop of Johannesburg. He over saw the introduction of women priests.
1986 became bishop of Cape Town and president of the All Africa Conference of Churches )AACC) which require more tours of Africa… ( See AACC for more information).
In 1990 F.W. de Kerk released Nelson Mandela. Desmond and Nelson together negotiations to end Apartheid and introduce multi-racial democracy
1994 Mandela elected as first black president of South Africa. Desmond was asked to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (T&RC) - it was a court like restorative body. It is generally thought to be successful . The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in 2000 replaced T&RC. ( See T&RC for more information).
Desmond was awarded the* Noble Peace Prize* award in 1984 in recognition of his efforts to resolving and ending apartheid.
Since apartheid’s fall he has campaigned on gay rights and spoken out on a wide range of subjects.
2010 he retired from public life but continues to travel widely.
Sources used
Britannica
King’s People
Wikipedia
Youth for Human Rights
Joseph William Livesey was an English temperance campaigner, social reformer, local politician, writer, publisher, newspaper proprietor and philanthropist.
He engaged energetically in local politics, filled many public posts and was a leader in every kind of philanthropic effort, especially identifying with the teetotal movement.
He published a number of publications
TheMoral Reformer(1833) which became the* Preston Temperance* (1834-8). This became the* British Temperance Advocate.*
Moral Reformer (1838/9) revived.
The Struggle(1841)
Preston Guardian (1844-1859) established with his sons
*Teetotal Progressionist * (1851/2)
Staunch Teetotaller (1867-9)
Jacqueline Bryony Lucy ‘Jackie’ Pullinger is a British Christian charismatic missionary to Hong Kong. She is th founder of the St. Stephen’s Society. She has been ministering in Hong Kong since 1966, over 50 years.
She was born in Croydon , London, England in 1944.
She graduated form the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London having specialized in the oboe.
Aged 22 she wanted to be a missionary. She wrote to various missionary organizations but was not offered any support.
Richard Thompson, a minister in Shoreditch, suggested she buy a boat ticket and pray she would know when to get off!
In 1966 she went by boat to Hong Kong.
When she arrived she had just $10 ‘on hand’. The only reason the immigration officer allowed her in was because her mother’s godson was a police officer there.
She found work as a primary school teacher in the Kowloon Walled City. In the 1960s it was not policed and had become one of the world’s largest opium producing centers run by Chinese criminal Triad gangs.
Despite the danger she helped the gang members to follow Jesus which gave them a purpose and reason for living without having to us drugs.
Later she established a youth center to help the drug addicts and street sleepers inside the walled city. She also taught music at St. Stephen’s Girls College.
In 1981 she started a charity called the St. Stephen’s Society. It exists to preach the gospel, reach he poor and see people set free through faith in Jesus Christ. Our heart is to go to the ends of the earth to make disciples.
(See note about St. Stephen’s Society)
The Society provided rehabilitation homes for recovering addicts, prostitutes and gang members. By December 2007 it housed 200 people. The Hong Kong government recognized the charity and donated land for the homes.
In May 2019 Justin Welby went to Hong Kong. He was there with his wife to attend the 17th Anglican Consultative Council.
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Jackie Pullinger to see discipleship in action
He went to see the Shing Mun Springs Multi-Purpose Rehabilitation home and Jackie Pullinge. (See picture and notes)
The early years of her ministry in Hong Kong are chronicled in the book Chasing the Dragon (2006) which has been translated into several languages
A photographic account of her work A Crack in the Wall: The Life and Death of Kowloon Wall City has also been published. (See ‘Amazon’ notes)
Sources used
Amazon
St Stephen’s Society - official website for Jackie Pullinger
Wikipedia
I have created 15 pages of multiple choice questions, with a few homophones, on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which I hope will prove useful.
In June 2022 I began tutoring a 10 year old English 11+ work. I decided to introduce her to the Narnia stories for the comprehension work.
To encourage the child to read I took the famous The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and decided to create some multiple choice work. I have very much linked the work to the book so most of the answers are to be found on the page references I have given to most of the questions.
The child was set the homework of reading a chapter(s) and in the tutorial answering the questions - using the page reference as an aid if required.
I also wrote the material in TES for T’he Chronicles of Narnia - short crosswords with word search- which has been very well received.
Where it says see special sheet it is referring to that material.
,Margaret Clitherow , known as ‘the Pearl of York’ , was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
To be ’ pressed to death’ meant having a door being put over the top of the accused and the door loaded with an immense weight of rocks and stones. This was the standard inducement to force a plea.
Margaret converted to Roman Catholicism in 1574.
Her husband paid her fines for not attending the Established church. In 1577 she was imprisoned for not attending church. 2 further incarcerations followed at York Castle. Their son William was born in prison.
The Act of 1584, by the Jesuits, made it a capital offence to harbour and maintain priests. Margaret had 2 chambers-one next to their house and a second in rented house some distance away.
Local tradition holds she also housed some priests in the Black Swan where the Queen’s agents lodged!
These 3 chambers became important hiding place for fugitive Roman Catholic priests in the north of England. There Mass was celebrated through the thick of the persecution.
In 10 th March 1586 the house was searched. A frightened boy revealed the location of the priest hole. She was arrested and called before the York assizes. She refused to plea. She was sentenced to death. She died on 25th March 1586
She was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius X1 and canonised by Pope Paul V1 on 25th October 1970 among the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales…
Saint Margaret’s shrine is as 35/6, The Shambles, in York.
Source
Wikipedia
Hugh was the Bishop of Worcester(1535-9) during the Reformation. He became the C of E chaplain to King Edward V1.
In his middle 60s he faced a trial on 14th April 1554… He argued, in writing since he was hardly able to sustain a debate at his age, that the doctrines of the real presence of Christ in the mass, transubstantiation and the propitiatory merit of the mass were unbiblical.
In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary 1 he was tried for his beliefs and teachings. He was burned with Nicholas Ridley at the stake. He became one of the three Oxford Martyrs -Thomas Cramner was the third.
It may come in my days,as old as i am, or in my children’s days, the saints shall be taken up to meet Christ in the air, and so shall come down with him again.
Hugh Latimer
Source
Wikipedia
Peter, the Hermit was a Roman Catholic Priest from Amiens.
Pope Urban 11 called for a crusade to liberate the Holy Places (1095)- destination the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem.
Peter toured Europe preaching the crusade. He was a key figure during the military expedition from France to Jerusalem, known as the People’s Crusade or Crusade of the Paupers. He was one of the preachers of the armed pilgrimage and leapt to fame as an emotional revivalist. Historians agree that 1000s of serfs and peasants eagerly took the cross at his bid. Some historians think the crusade would have included well-armed soldiers and nobles.
The Crusade to the Holy Land began in the spring of 1096. He received permission from Patriarch Simeon 11 of Jerusalem. He recruited from England, Lorraine, France and Flanders.
The start was disastrously with the massacre of Jewish civilians
( ReadMassacre of Jewish civilians)
They then had to go through Hungary, Belgrade and Sofia. They started in April 1096 with 40,000 men and women from Cologne and arrived in Constantinople with 30,000 by the end of July. (The ‘locals’ were expected to feed the vast host of paupers for the remainders of their journey.)r
( Read Hungary, Belgrade Sofia and Constantinople)
During the winter (1096/7), with little hope of securing Byzantine support, the Crusade waited for the armed crusaders as their sole source of protection in completing the pilgrimage.
The numbers, to a small degree, were replenished with disarmed , injured or bankrupted crusaders. . After a few rousing speeches Peter now played a subordinate role, The Crusade settled on a military campaign to secure the pilgrimage routes and holy sites in Palestine.
When they reached Antioch at the beginning of 1098 he gave a stirring speech before the half-starved Crusaders gained victory over the superior Muslim army besieging the city.
In 1099 he appears as the treasurer of the alms at the siege of Arqa. He was leader of he supplication processions around the walls of Jerusalem before it fell and later, within Jerusalem, after the surprising victory at the Battle of Ascalon (August).
At the end of 1099 he went to Latakia and sailed for the west. From this time he disappears from the historical records except in his obituary in the chronicle at Neufmoustier Abbey. ( read Later Life)
In 1100 he returned to Europe to be the prior at the monastery he had founded in Neufmroutier near Huy.
H e died in 1115 and his tomb is in Neufmoustier Abbey.-*
His name.
He is called Pierre l’Ermite in French. The structure of the name in French unlike in English has led some francophone scholars to treat l’Ermite as a surname rather than a title.
Sources
Wikipedia
The Hodder & Stoughton Book of Famous Christians by Tony Castle
John was an English Anglican, Baptist, then Mennonite minister and a defender of the principle of religious liberty.
He attended Christ’s College, Cambridge where he became a fellow in 1594 and was ordained for ministry in the C of E the same year.
He became a Puritan preacher, then a Separatist pastor, which led to exile in Amsterdam. He became a se-baptist (baptised himself)(c,1609) and set up the first Baptist church(1612) in Britain… He believed in believer’s baptism by immersion not infant baptism.
In February 1610 he and other church members wrote to a Mennonite community in Waterland to join their movement. The group earned the name General Baptists because they claimed that Christ died for all men rather than for the elect only.
See notes also on Mennonites.
The Hodder & Stoughton Book of Famous Christians
Wikipedia
William was born during the reign of Elizabeth 1 (1558-1603) and beheaded during the reign of Charles 1 (1625-1649).
William was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles 1 in 1633. and was a key advocate of his religious reforms. He was a highly effective parliamentarian
and a key adviser ad policy-maker.
He was bishop of Bath and Wells, then London before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury i in 1633
He was a firm believer in episcopalianism -the rule by bishops.* Laudianism refers to liturgical practices designed to enforce uniformity within the C of E as outlined by Charles 1.
He was accused of Arminianism - favouring doctrines of the historic church prior to the Reformation. He was opposed to Calvinism.
The Long Parliament of 1640 accused Laud of treason. Impeached in the the Grand Remonstrance of 1641 and was imprisonment in the Tower of London.
In 1644 he was brought to trial which ended without a verdict.
Parliament took up the issue and eventually passed a bill of attainder , under which Laud was beheaded on Tower Hill on 10 th of January 1645. He was buried in the chapel of St. John’s College, Oxford. This was towards the end of the First English Civil War (1642-6)
Charles 1 towards the end of his life admitted he had put too much trust in William and warned his son not to rely on anyone else’s judgment.
William was born in Reading, Berkshire.
Source
Wikipedia.
Sergius also known as Sergiy Radonezhsky, Serge of Radonexh and Sergius of Moscow was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia.
In the village of Varnitsa he received the baptismal name of Bartholomew in honour of the Apostle Bartholomew.
H e was an intelligent boy but had a problem with reading. His biography states that a spiritual leader gave him some holy bread (prosphora) to eat and then he was able to read.
He was:- Abbott of Radonezh
Miracle Worker of all Russia
Russian Monastic Reformer
Teacher of the Faith
The memory of Segius has lived on thanks to the unique manuscript entitled The Life of St, Sergius of Radonezhs written by the famous hagiographer Pachomius the Serb. The original script is housed in the National Library of Russia.
He is remembered in the C of E witha commemoration on 25th September.
Saint Piran was a 5th century Cornish abbot and saint, possibly of Irish origin.
He is the patron saint of tin-miners and generally regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall.
He was reportedly executed by Theodoric or Tador, King of Cornwall in 480 AD.
His feast day is popular in Cornwall.The largest St. Piran’s Day event is the march across the dunes to St. Piran’s cross which 100s of people attend, generally dressed in black, white and gold, and carry the Cornish flag. Daffodils also feature in celebrations in Truro.
Charles Harold Dodd was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian.
1912 ordained
He was a Congregational minister for 3 years in Warwick before going into academia.
1915 Yates lecturer in N.T. at Oxford
1930 Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and exegesis at the Victoria University of Manchester
1935 Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge
1946 elected fellow of the British Academy
1949 emeritus at Norris-Hulse
1961 appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour
He directed the work of the New English Bible translators from 1950.
He wrote over 30 books and 5 Journal articles ( See Works).
C.H. Dodd died in Goring-on- Thames. aged 89.
He is known for promoting ‘realized eschatology ’ - the belief that Jesus’ references to the kingdom of God meant present reality rather than a future apocalypse.
Source
Wikipedia
Samuel was an evangelist and Presbyterian minister. He ministered in Hanover County from 1748-1759 followed by a term as the fourth President of Princeton University. He was one of the first non-Anglican preachers in Virginia and one of the earliest missionaries to slaves in the 13 Colonies.
A child of deeply religious parents he was named after the prophet Samuel.
Unable to afford to send their son o college he was tutored by Rev. Samuel Blair at Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania.
Presbytery of New Castle licensed him to preach in 1746. In 1747 he travelled south to minister to minister to religious dissenters against the Anglican church.
He eventually led 7 congregations in 5 counties despite frail health from tuberculosis.
When his wife Sarah died from a miscarriage in 1747 he too believed he was near death so he threw himself wholeheartedly into his preaching ministry.
He advanced the cause of religious and civil liberty. He helped found the Presbytery of Hanover and served as the first moderator.
He advocated the educating of slaves , including teaching them to read. Slavery became a major focus of his ministry.
You know I have shown a tender concern for your welfare, ever since I have been in the colony and you may ask my own negroes whether I treat them kindly or no, from 1755 sermon by Samuel.
In 1753 he took the dangerous trip to Great Britain with Gilbert Tennent, a fellow minister, to raise money for the College of New Jersey. They stayed for 11 months. Samuel and preached 60 sermons, and together they raised £4,000 .(equivalent to $230,000 today) through church collections.
In 1759 the college asked him to be their president. He became the fourth president of what is now known as Princeton University. On New Year’s Day 1761 he preached his last sermon quoting Jeremiah 28 v16. 1 will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shall die.*
Almost prophetically Samuel died one month later, on 4th February, from pneumonia.
Samuel accomplished much despite his relatively short life. He was one of the major contributors to the Great Awakening - a series of religious revivals which caused America to break away from the Church of England.
Yesterday, Sunday, 13th October 2019, John Henry Newman was canonised - he was declared a saint. I went onto Google and found some information about Cardinal John Henry Newman. There’s lots to be found -here are a few relevant pieces of information.
St. Hilda’s day is November 17th. She was the abbess at Whitby monastery in the seventh century. She is remember for a wisdom. She was so wise that even kings sought her opinion. She came from a Royal family. Her father, Hereric, was the great nephew of King Edwin of Northumberland. She never married and became a nun. For over 30 years she was the Abbess of Whitby.
I have included two brief histories, a piece of gap work and a crossword and word search - answers included.
Saint Aidan was an Irish monk from Saint Columbo’s monastery on the Isle of Iona. In 635 Aidan was made bishop and set off for Northumbria.
He decided to make his new headquarters on Lindisfarne or Holy Island, a rocky island off the east coast of Northumberland. There he built a wooden church and monastery huts for his companions and himself and started a school for boys. The monks lived a life of prayer, study and austerity (no luxuries). From here they went on their missions.
The monastery was in sight of Bamborough, the castle/capital of King Oswald.
Initially he had a problem with the English language so the king interpreted for him. They soon became great friends. Saint Aidan was a simple and gentle man but quick to recognise goodness. He walked everywhere spreading the gospel and founded churches for his small Christian communities. (The king’s son Oswin , when he became king, offered him a horse but he gave it away)
In his years of evangelism he was responsible for the the construction of churches, monasteries and schools throughout Northumbria.
His friend King Oswald was killed after a battle with Penda, king of Mercia. Penda unable to take Bamborough created a fire which he hoped, wind assisted, would destroy the city. Saint Aidan prayed and the wind turned dramatically - Penda’s army retreated.
A while later Oswy invaded Northumbria. Oswin, knowing he could not win, dismissed his army. One of his own earls betrayed him. Saint Aidan died of shock when he heard the news - August 31st 651.
Saint Aidan is known as the Apostle of Northumbria.
Joseph Lightfoot, Bishop of Durhamwent several steps further
Augustine was the Apostle of Kent, but Aidan was the Apostle of the English*.
I have included some information about the island of Lindisfarne.
Sources used Wikipedia, * The Church’s Year* by Charles Alexander
Marygate House
John was an English Anglican priest and poet who was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford was named after him.
In 1806 he won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College Oxford. He excelled in his studies and achieved a first-class honours in both English and Latin in 1810.
He was ordained in 1816 and became a curate first to his father at Coln St. Aldwyns and then curate in Eastleach Martin in Gloucestershire.
He became a fellow at Oriel and was a tutor there between 1817-23.
On the death of his mother in 1823 he returned to live with his father and two surviving sisters in Fairford,
John anonymously published The Christian Year - a book of poems for Sundays and feast days of the Christian year, It appeared in 1827 . The authorship soon became known and in 1831 he was appointed to the Chair of a Poetry at Oxford. The book was very successful - by 1873 when the copyright expired 375,000 had been sold with 158 editions.
( For more of his writings read Other writings)
14 July 1833 he delivered his famous Assize Sermon on National Apostasy. It gave the first impulse to the Oxford Movement, also known as the Tractarian movement. The movement resulted in the establishment of Anglican religious orders for both men and women.
( See notes on Oxford Movement)
In 1835 his father died, he married Charlotte Clarke and he became vicar at Hursley in Hampshire. Here he stayed until his death in 1866.
John was a brilliant scholar, but self effacing, he was much sought after for his spiritual guidance.
Sources
Wikipedia
The Hodder & Stoughton Book of Famous Christians
Saint Clare was an Italian saint and one of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi. He inspired her to form the Order of Poor Ladies - a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition.
Aged 12 her parents wanted her to marry a young wealthy man. She protested and sought the help of Francis.
On 20th March 1212 she had her hair cut short and had her rich gown replaced by a plain robe. Cutting her hair was a symbolic act showing she was no longer bound by the laws of man or society but rather she followed the will of God,
She was then placed with Benedictine nuns in San Paula, near Bastia.
Her parents and Monaldo- Clare’s uncle and head of the family, did not accept willingly what had happened. Catarina, her sister, who changed her name to Agnes, joined her. - this caused a tremendous uproar.
They finally relented when Clare threw aside her veil to reveal her cropped hair that they left her in peace. ( For more detail read* Life in the convent*)
The sisters remained with the Benedictines until a small dwelling was built next to the church of San Damiano. Their lives consisted of manual labour and prayer.
The nuns were barefoot, slept on the ground, ate no meat and observed almost complete silence.town of Assisi were attacked
For a short time the order was directed by Francis. In 1216 Clare reluctantly accepted the role of abbess at San Damiano. Clare was a shy person and did not like giving orders and referred to herself as a mother, handmaid or servant rather than an abbess, She took care of Francis during his final illness (he died in1226).
1240/1 the monastery at San Damiano and the town of Assisi attacked and successfully defended as Clare prayed to Christ, present in the Blessed Sacrament.
Clare wrote the rules for Rule of Life which meant they followed a rule of strict poverty. This was the first set of monastic guidelines written by a woman.
In her later years she had a long period of poor health. She died on11th August 1253 at the age of 59, one day having her Rule approved by Pope Innocent 1V.
Her last words, to herself, are reported to be Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for He who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be You, O God, for having created me.
After her death the order was renamed the Order of Saint Clare.
(Read Legacy)
Source
Wikipedia
Robert was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman. He was a pioneer of the Sunday School movement although he did not start the first Sunday School.
The original schedule for schools -as written by Robert was
The children were to come after ten in the morning, and stay till twelve; they were then to go home and return at one; and after reading a lesson, they were to be conducted to church. After church, they were to be employed repeating the catechism till after five, and then dismissed with an injunction to go home without making a noise.
He inherited a publishing business from his father and in 1757 he became proprietor of the Gloucester Journal. In 1758 he moved the business to Robert Raikes’ House.
He was interested in prison reform, specifically with the conditions in Gloucester
gaol and saw that vice would be better prevented than cured. He saw schooling as the best intervention.
The movement began in July 1780 in the home of Mrs Meredith and with a school for boys in the slums. The best available time was Sunday- the boys were working 6 days a week in the factories. The teachers were lay people. The text book was the Bible. Later girls also attended.
He used his newspaper to publicise the schools and bore most of the cost himself in the early years.
Despite controversy and disputes, in the early years, Sunday Schools -some called the schools* Raikes’Ragged School* grew at a phenomenal rate in Great Britain.
1788 - 300,000 children
1831 - `.1,250,000
1910 - 5,500,000
These schools preceded the first state funding schools for the general public. They are seen as the forerunners of the currwnt English school system
The money of phianthropist Robert Raikes was not wasted.
Thomas was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Free Church of Scotland and the Church of England. He has been called* Scotland’s greatest 19th century churchman*.
Aged 11 he attended the University of St. Andrews studying mathematics.
January 1799 he was licensed as a preacher.
May, 1803, following further courses of lectures, he was ordained as minister of Kilmany and acted as assistant to the professor of mathematics at St. Andrews.
His mathematics lectures roused enthusiasm but were discontinued by the authorities.so he opened mathematical classes of his own which attracted many students. Also gave lectures on Chemistry. and administered his parish.
1805 unsuccessful in application for professorship in mathematics at University of Edinburgh.
1815 became minister of the Tron church in Glasgow.
His reputation as preacher in Glasgow spread through out the UK.
Read paragraph on Parochial Work.
1823 he accepted the chair of moral philosophy at the University of
St. Andrews.
1828 he was transferred to the chair of Theology at the University of Edinburgh.
1834 he became leader and chairman of the evangelical section of the Scottish Church in the General Assembly which stood for ‘non-intrusionism’
( definition - no minister should be intruded into any parish contrary to the will of the congregation) Also elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
1835-41 he served as Vice-president f the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
1840 unsuccessfully applied for chair of Divinity at the University of Glasgow.
Thomas made a number of appeals as leader and by 1841 , 7 years later when he resigned as convener, £300, 000 had been contributed and 220 new churches built.
1844 he announced a church extension campaign for new building.
1846 became first principal of the Divinity Hall of the Free Church of Scotland.
On Friday,28th May 1847 he returned to his house at Church Hill. On the Saturday he prepared a report and continued in his usual health and spirits and retired to rest. He died on the Sunday. He was discovered lying dead in bed.
His academic years resulted in a prolific literature of various kinds: his writings filled more than 30 volumes.
The Thomas Chalmers Centre in Kirkliston is named after him.
Thomas Chalmers has been correctly called Scotland’s greatest nineteenth century churchman. He was also an outstanding mathematician.
Source
Wikipedia