22 Facts About James Martineau

1.

James Martineau was a British religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.

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William Ewart Gladstone said to Frances Power Cobbe "Dr James Martineau is beyond question the greatest of living thinkers".

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One of James Martineau's children was the Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist Edith James Martineau.

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The seventh of eight children, James Martineau was born in Norwich, England, where his father Thomas was a cloth manufacturer and merchant.

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The James Martineau family were descended from Gaston James Martineau, a Huguenot surgeon and refugee, who married Marie Pierre in 1693, and settled in Norwich.

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James Martineau was sent to Bristol to the private academy of Dr Lant Carpenter, under whom he studied for two years.

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James Martineau's conversion followed, and in 1822 he entered the dissenting academy Manchester College, then at York - his uncle Peter Finch James Martineau was one of its Vice-Presidents.

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8.

James Martineau's conscience did allow him to attend both the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838 and her Golden Jubilee half a century later.

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James Martineau lodged in a house owned by Joseph Williamson.

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In 1840 James Martineau was appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in Manchester New College, the seminary in which he had been educated, and which had now moved from York back to Manchester.

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James Martineau became a candidate, and despite strong support from some quarters, potent opposition was organised by the anti-clerical George Grote, whose refusal to endorse James Martineau resulted in the appointment of George Croom Robertson, then an untried man.

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James Martineau sidestepped Grote's opposition, much as Hoppus had learnt to do during his Professorship, and developed a cordial friendship with Robertson.

13.

James Martineau was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1872.

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James Martineau's preaching led to works that built up his reputation:Endeavours after the Christian Life, 1st series, 1843; 2nd series, 1847; Hours of Thought, 1st series, 1876; 2nd series, 1879; the various hymn-books he issued at Dublin in 1831, at Liverpool in 1840, in London in 1873; and the Home Prayers in 1891.

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In 1839 James Martineau came to the defence of Unitarian doctrine, under attack by Liverpool clergymen including Fielding Ould and Hugh Boyd M'Neile.

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James Martineau came to know German philosophy and criticism, especially the criticism of Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tubingen school, which affected his construction of Christian history.

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James Martineau addressed the public, as editor and contributor, in the Monthly Repository, the Christian Reformer, the Prospective Review, the Westminster Review and the National Review.

18.

James Martineau propounded a scheme, which was not taken up, that would have removed the church from the hands of a clerical order, and allowed the coordination of sects or churches under the state.

19.

Stanley, Dean of Westminster, "if the Church of England would broaden sufficiently to allow James Martineau to be made Archbishop of Canterbury".

20.

James Martineau was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

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One of his daughters was the watercolourist Edith James Martineau who was interred in the family grave in 1909.

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However, unofficially, the hall was named after James Martineau who had died within recent years having established the hall's Sunday school some decades earlier.