Moncure Daniel Conway
| Moncure Daniel Conway | |||||||||
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| Born | 1832 | ||||||||
| Died | 1907 | ||||||||
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51 Notting Hill Square [1869] 2 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W. [1875][crossed out by hand in favour of address below] Hamlet House, Hammersmith, W [1879] Inglewood, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. [1881] | ||||||||
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church historian literary | ||||||||
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see William Crowder
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Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia – November 5, 1907 in Paris) was an American abolitionist, Methodist, Unitarian and Freethinker (admirer of Thomas Paine) minister, biographer, historian, and writer, who lived most of his life abroad.
The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world, and is the only remaining ethical society in the United Kingdom. It now advocates secular humanism and is a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
In 1929 they built new premises, Conway Hall, at 37 (now numbered 25) Red Lion Square, in nearby Bloomsbury, on the site of a tenement, previously a factory belonging to James Perry, a pen and ink maker. The original name, South Place Ethical Society, was retained until 2012.
Conway Hall is named after an American, Moncure Conway, who led the Society from 1864–1885 and 1892–1897, during which time it moved further away from Unitarianism. Conway spent the break in his tenure in the United States, writing a biography of Thomas Paine
