What organisation was founded by William Alexander Smith in 1883 in Glasgow?
"his services to children. He also eventually reached the rank of Honorary Colonel in the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers. He died on 14 May 1914 in London. He was buried in Glasgow. There is a memorial stone in honour of him in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. William Alexander Smith (Boys' Brigade) Sir William Alexander Smith (27 October 1854 – 14 May 1914), the founder of the Boys' Brigade, was born in Pennyland House, Thurso, Scotland. He was the eldest son of Major David Smith and his wife Harriet. He and his siblings formed a family"
"managed move away from slavery. Glasgow Emancipation Society The Glasgow Emancipation Society was a group of Glaswegians who formed an anti-slavery abolitionist group. Prominent members included James McCune Smith, John Murray, William Smeal, Ralph Wardlaw, Anthony Wigham and Hugh Heugh. There was also a Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society and in 1833 there was an Edinburgh Emancipation Society and in time an Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society. The British and American abolitionist movements split over with the beliefs of William Lloyd Garrison who advocated the immediate release of American slaves. This society like Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin, Bristol, and Clifton were strong supporters"
"Glasgow Emancipation Society The Glasgow Emancipation Society was a group of Glaswegians who formed an anti-slavery abolitionist group. Prominent members included James McCune Smith, John Murray, William Smeal, Ralph Wardlaw, Anthony Wigham and Hugh Heugh. There was also a Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society and in 1833 there was an Edinburgh Emancipation Society and in time an Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society. The British and American abolitionist movements split over with the beliefs of William Lloyd Garrison who advocated the immediate release of American slaves. This society like Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin, Bristol, and Clifton were strong supporters whilst other groups favoured a"
"unsuccessfully supported William Robertson Smith in a trial for heresy between 1877 and 1881 which resulted in Smith's losing his position at the Aberdeen Free Church College. He died in Glasgow on 6 December 1912. He was a contributor to ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" and to the Cambridge Modern History. Lindsay married Anna Dunlop. The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women was started at the suggestion of Mrs Jean Campbell in 1868. Anna Lindsay was one of its founders. Lindsay's name was said to be synonymous with the women's movement in Scotland. Their children included Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay"
"(BB) is an interdenominational Christian youth organisation, conceived by Sir William Alexander Smith to combine drill and fun activities with Christian values. Following its inception in Glasgow in 1883, the BB quickly spread across the United Kingdom and became a worldwide organisation by the early 1890s. The Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade is a Church of England youth organisation with branches in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Bermuda, Kenya, South Africa, Newfoundland and St Helena. Its origins lie in the formation in 1891 of the Church Lads' Brigade with its sister organisation, the Church Nursing and Ambulance Brigade for Young"
"Christianity’. Returning to Scotland, he quickly identified himself with the abolitionist and other reform movements and became a member of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society on its formation in 1822. When that Society ceased to meet, following abolition of slavery in the British colonies, he called for establishment of a new association to work for the suppression of slavery worldwide. His appeals led to the Glasgow Emancipation Society being formed in December 1833 with the Quaker tea merchant William Smeal and himself as its executive officers. The two men became ‘the soul of the Society’ and their conduct of its affairs"
"William Smeal William Smeal (1792–1877) was a grocer and an abolitionist Quaker from Glasgow. William Smeal was born in 1792. He and his brother James were both grocers and were active in the anti-slavery movement in Scotland. He is credited with founding the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society, forerunner of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, in 1822. He was noted as a tea merchant, and his sister Jane Smeal was also a leading abolitionist. Smeal attended the week-long World Anti-Slavery conference in 1840. His presence there was captured in a portrait, where he appears alongside other Quakers such as Josiah Forster, businessmen such"
"Almanac"" (1993) and ""Nights in Haunted Houses"" (1994), all by Peter Underwood, ""Some Unseen Power"" (1985) by Philip Paul, ""The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits"" (1992) by Rosemary Ellen Guiley, ""Will Storr Versus the Supernatural"" (2006) by Will Storr, ""The Guide to Mysterious Glasgow"" (2009) by Geoff Holder, ""Ghost Hunting: a Survivor's Guide"" (2010) by John Fraser and ""A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting"" (2013) by Dr Leo Ruickbie. The Ghost Club The Ghost Club is a paranormal investigation and research organization, founded in London in 1862. It is widely believed to be the oldest such organization in the world."
"contribution to public life. His sister Jane was a leader of the anti-slavery movement, and her stepdaughter Eliza Wigham was a noted campaigner for abolitionism and women's rights. William Smeal William Smeal (1792–1877) was a grocer and an abolitionist Quaker from Glasgow. William Smeal was born in 1792. He and his brother James were both grocers and were active in the anti-slavery movement in Scotland. He is credited with founding the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society, forerunner of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, in 1822. He was noted as a tea merchant, and his sister Jane Smeal was also a leading abolitionist. Smeal"
"east of Scotland, as we learn from Robert Burns; and such men as William Dalrymple, D.D. (1723–1814) and William M'Gill, D.D. (1732–1807), along with other ""moderates"", were under suspicion of similar heresies. Overt Unitarianism has never had much vogue in Scotland. The only congregation of old foundation is at Edinburgh, founded in 1776 by a secession from one of the ""fellowship societies"" formed by James Fraser, of Brea (1639–1699). The mission enterprises of Richard Wright (1764–1836) and George Harris (1794–1859) produced results of no great permanence. The Scottish Unitarian Association was founded in 1813, mainly by Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D.,"
"Mitty, who began working at the Oxfam shop on Broad Street, Oxford on 9 November 1949. Engaged to manage the accounts and distribute donated clothing, he originated the policy of selling anything which people were willing to donate, and developed the shop into a national chain. By 1960, it was a major international non-governmental aid organization. The first overseas committee was founded in Canada in 1963, and in 1965 the organization changed its name to its telegraphic address, OXFAM. The Oxford committee became known as Oxfam Great Britain or Oxfam GB. In 1995 Oxfam International was formed by a group"
"City Mission The City Mission movement started in Glasgow in January 1826 when David Nasmith, founded the Glasgow City Mission (Scotland). It was an interdenominational agency working alongside churches and other Christian agencies to provide for the spiritual and material welfare of those in need. Agencies in the movement are variously called ""City"" or ""Gospel"" or ""Rescue"" Missions. The City Mission movement is worldwide: The City Mission World Association (CMWA) provides the opportunity for the various missions to meet and support each other, membership is open to incorporated Christian organisations or associations that: Nasmith visited the United States and Canada"
"John Smith & Son John Smith & Son is a United Kingdom academic bookseller, based in Ringwood. Founded in 1751, it is the oldest bookselling company in the English-speaking world. It was based for many years at 57-61 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, which was also its principal retail outlet. A circulating library (established by Smith as Glasgow's first circulating library and Scotland's second overall) ultimately evolved into the academic bookselling arm of the business. The St. Vincent Street shop, along with the general retail part of the business closed in 2000. However as part of the JS Group it"
"the university still resided within Glasgow Cathedral. Pope John Paul II issued a 'Papal Letter' to the society upon his visit to Scotland in 1982, which recognised the society's claim to have been established in 1451. The society was formally re-instituted in 1861. The society has led the UK's university debating culture since 1953. In 1955, it won the Observer Mace, now the John Smith Memorial Mace, named after the deceased GUU debater and former leader of the British Labour Party. The GUU has since won the Mace debating championship sixteen more times, far more than any other university. The"
"continues to trade as an academic bookseller, with campus outlets including Glasgow University, Strathclyde University and the University of London in the UK as well as overseas. John Smith & Son John Smith & Son is a United Kingdom academic bookseller, based in Ringwood. Founded in 1751, it is the oldest bookselling company in the English-speaking world. It was based for many years at 57-61 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, which was also its principal retail outlet. A circulating library (established by Smith as Glasgow's first circulating library and Scotland's second overall) ultimately evolved into the academic bookselling arm of"
"Glasgow University Conservative Association Glasgow University Conservative Association (shortened to GUCUA) was founded in 1836 at the University of Glasgow, and is the oldest University Conservative association in the United Kingdom. It was formed as a branch of the Federation of Conservative Students and of the Young Conservatives, and remains affiliated to the Scottish Conservative Party. Its main aim was to promote Conservative principles in the University with special emphasis on student and University politics. Its original name was the Peel Club, and it was formed after Robert Peel's 1836 election as Rector of Glasgow University. In 1852 it changed"
"Society, whose prominent member was Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon. In 1990 the name was changed to Anti-Slavery International. Anti-Slavery Society The Anti-Slavery Society was the everyday name of two different British organisations. The first was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its official name was the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. This objective was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. A successor organisation, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, was formed in 1839 to fight for"
"of the Wernerian Society, a member of the Highland Society (1823), and a founder of the Glasgow Yacht Club. In 1822 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Lord John Campbell. In 1830 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. He died on 17 January 1867 at Jordanhill House. In 1809 Smith married Mary Wilson (granddaughter of Alexander Wilson and niece of Patrick Wilson) in 1809. Their son Archibald Smith of Jordanhill was a barrister and mathematician."
"than 85,000 awards. The Glasgow Humane Society is a prevention, rescue, and recovery group set up to cover the waterways of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The main animal humane societies in the UK are the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) (founded 1824) and its offshoots, the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) and the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA). There is also the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), founded in 1917, to treat the sick and injured animals of the poor, and numerous other animal rescue"
"While in Scotland, Smith joined the Glasgow Emancipation Society and met people in the Scottish and English abolitionist movement. In 1833, Great Britain abolished slavery. When Smith returned to New York, he quickly joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and worked for the cause in the United States. He worked effectively with both black and white abolitionists, for instance maintaining a friendship and correspondence with Gerrit Smith that spanned the years from 1846-65. Publishing articles quickly brought him to the attention of the national abolitionist movement. His ""Destiny of the People of Color"", ""Freedom and Slavery for Africans"", and ""A lecture"
"co-operative for local craftsmen to organise, work, learn and sell their handiwork. It was built on the principles behind William Morris's Arts and Crafts Movement and lasted in that form until 1918, when the enterprise folded. It was bought out by three local businessmen and turned into a fully commercial venture, importing glass from Sweden and crystal and pottery from elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Park Street has been the home of the Guild since its founding, with the modern-day premises located at 68–70 Park Street. Since the 1940s, the Guild has survived the Bristol Blitz bombings in World War"
"Girlguiding Scotland Girlguiding Scotland is part of the worldwide Guiding movement. It is the country's largest voluntary organisation for girls and young women with 61,375 members in 3,500 units throughout Scotland. The origins of the Guiding and Scouting movement date back to 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell formed the Boy Scouts as a training organization for boys. The first Patrol of Girl Scouts in Scotland was formed in Glasgow in 1908 with links to the 1st Glasgow Scout Patrol, similar patrols were being set up all over the UK. This led to a more specific demand for ""something for the girls"""
"and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow, and Walter Montgomerie Neilson, one of the major figures in establishing Glasgow's locomotive-building industry. Rankine was the first President of the Institution and Neilson succeeded him in 1859. The Engineer James Howden, who died in 1913, was the last surviving founding member of the Institution. The Institution was an early promoter of consciousness of industrial effects on the environment. In those early years there was a pervading atmosphere of enquiry into the applications of steam power. In 1858 the Institution was responsible for a public meeting, held in the Glasgow City Chambers, to"
"Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society The Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society was a leading abolitionist group based in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the nineteenth century. The women associated with the organisation are considered ""heroines"" and the impact of these abolitionist organisations for women are thought to have had a notional impact. The Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society was a later addition to societies formed in 1833; on 7 October 1833, a group of activists formed the Edinburgh Emancipation Society, the Glasgow Emancipation Society, and the Glasgow Ladies's Emancipation Society. The Edinburgh societies were formed to support George Thompson, as he had received an invitation"
"in 1830, setting up 31 missions supported by various benevolent institutions. He founded missions in France, the London City Mission, the London Female Mission, the Dublin Christian Mission and a number of other ministries. The first World Conference of City Missions was sponsored by the Sydney City Mission (now Mission Australia) was held in Sydney Australia in 1988. Subsequent conferences were in: City Mission The City Mission movement started in Glasgow in January 1826 when David Nasmith, founded the Glasgow City Mission (Scotland). It was an interdenominational agency working alongside churches and other Christian agencies to provide for the spiritual"
"Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy The Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy is a chair at the University of Glasgow, named for Adam Smith, pioneering economist, author of ""The Wealth of Nations"", and one of the university's most famous sons. It was established in 1896 from a lectureship which had been endowed in 1892 by Andrew Stewart, founder of Stewarts & Lloyds tube-manufacturers. Occupants are appointed by the University Court acting with a representative of the Merchants' House of Glasgow, the Trades House of Glasgow and the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow. The first occupant of the chair was"
"protests and carefully formulated proposals. From its birth, the Glasgow Emancipation Society prioritized pressing for British support for the abolitionist struggle in America. Murray identified himself with William Lloyd Garrison’s demands for immediate and unconditional freedom of slaves; he read Garrison’s ‘Appeal to the Friends of Negro Emancipation throughout Great Britain’ (August 1833) to the assembly that resolved to form the Society and later established a warm personal rapport with Garrison and other leaders of the American abolitionist cause who visited Glasgow, often accommodating them at his home and pressing his own money on them for travel expenses. Charles Lenox"
"in the missionary campaign to the working classes. A new wave of temperance societies included the United Order of Female Rechabites and the Independent Order of Good Templars, which arrived from the US in 1869 and within seven years had 1100 branches in Scotland. The Salvation Army also placed an emphasis on sobriety. The Catholic Church had its own temperance movement, founding Catholic Total Abstinence Society in 1839. They made common cause with the Protestant societies, holding joint processions. Other religious based organisations that expanded in this period included the Orange Order, which had 15,000 members in Glasgow by the"
"additional impetus of controversy regarding discrimination in James Graham's 1843 proposals for changes to education provisions in the Factory Acts and the schism in the Church of Scotland, Miall formed the British Anti-State Church Association in 1844. The group was renamed in 1853 as the Liberation Society on the advice of the relatively moderate veteran campaigner, Edward Baines. The Liberation Society, says historian Richard Helmstadter, became ""the most important political organisation of the Nonconformist community"" almost from its foundation and until the death of Miall in 1881. The Society campaigned on issues including church rates and discrimination both in cemeteries"
"men across international borders in order to put them into slavery at the destination. This form of modern slavery is one of the most common and may affect the most people: it is estimated that between 500,000 and 800,000 victims enter the trade each year. The first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. In 1839, English activist Joseph Sturge formed a successor organisation, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (today known as Anti-Slavery International),"
"Scotland has its own professional association, Rights Advice Scotland (RAS). The Flemming Rule of 1960, named after Arthur Flemming, was an administrative ruling which decreed that states could not deny income assistance eligibility through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program on the basis of a home being considered unsuitable per the woman's children being termed as illegitimate. In 1963 Johnnie Tillmon founded ANC (Aid to Needy Children) Mothers Anonymous, which was one of the first grassroots welfare mothers’ organizations, and which eventually became part of the National Welfare Rights Organization. The National Welfare Rights Organization, active from 1966"
"majority of the population not being aligned with the Church of Scotland. Notes Citations Bibliography Liberation Society The Liberation Society was an organisation in Victorian England that campaigned for disestablishment of the Church of England. It was founded in 1844 by Edward Miall as the British Anti-State Church Association and was renamed in 1853 as the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control, from which the shortened common name of ""Liberation Society"" derived. Nonconformism – which included Baptists, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Wesleyans and other branches of Methodism – was a significant religious movement in mid-nineteenth century Britain."
"from across Britain and the American colonies. Its chief sponsor was Archibald Campbell (1682-1761), 1st earl of Islay, later 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scotland's most influential political leader. It served as a model for the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Leading thinkers of the period included David Hume, Adam Smith, James Hutton, Joseph Black, John Playfair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, and jurists Lord Kames and Lord Monboddo. They often met for intense discussions at The Select Society and, later, The Poker Club. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, founded in 1783, became Scotland's national academy of science"