Reverend Canon William Cadman M.A. | |
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Rector of Holy Trinity Church, St Marylebone | |
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Ordination | 31 May 1840, St George's, Hanover Square, London |
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Born | Billinge, Lancashire, England | 13 May 1815
Died | 12 May 1891 Marylebone, London | (aged 75)
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Church of England |
Spouse | Lœtitia Ann Rose Cadman |
Children | Rev.William Snape Cadman (1855-1907) Rev. John Montague Cadman (1856-1916) |
Occupation | Priest and evangelist |
Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
The Reverend Canon William Cadman (1815-1891), was an English Anglican priest and evangelist. He was ordained as a priest in 1840 and spent over fifty years administering the Christian mission to some of the most deprived communities in London. As Rector of parishes in Southwark and Marylebone he become famous in London for his preaching of the Gospel which often took place in venues away from the main parish church and sometimes in the open air. A committed evangelist at the forefront of the Evangelical Anglicanism revival that began at the end of the 18th-century and continued into the 19th-century, he established mission chapels and used licensed rooms and temporary places of worship to promote the mission in working class areas where church attendance had been in decline. His methods were largely successful and his influence on a younger generation of evangelicals was notable.[1]