Thomas Magarey |
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| Title : | Thomas Magarey |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1840 | ||
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Brothers Thomas and James Magarey came to Adelaide in 1845 from Lancashire via New Zealand. Thomas had experienced a religious conversion a short time before, and in Adelaide he joined a group of 'Scotch Baptists'. The group purchased land in Franklin Street and built a chapel. Magarey and his fellow Christians took a non-denominational approach to Christianity, calling themselves the Church of Christ. They were influenced by the writings of Alexander Campbell, a founder of the American 'Disciples of Christ'. In 1856 a chapel was opened in Grote Street and it remains the site of the main city church for the denomination. Magarey became a rich man through his milling business and in 1860 entered South Australian Parliament. In 1880 he left the Church of Christ to join the local Brethren. |
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| Related names : | Campbell, Alexander Magarey, James Magarey, Thomas, 1825-1902 Church of Christ (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | 1840 |
| Place : | Adelaide (S. Aust.) |
| Further reading : | Caldicott, Arnold, ed. Churches of Christ sesquicentennial in Australia, 1846-1996, Adelaide: Church of Christ, Grote Street, c1995 Caldicott, Arnold. The Verco story: hopes we live by, Adelaide, S. Aust.: A. Caldicott, 1970 Hilliard, David. 'Magarey, Thomas', Australian dictionary of evangelical biography, Ed. Brian Dickey, Sydney: Evangelical History Association, 1994 Lawrie, Trevor. From soil and seed: pioneering Churches of Christ, [Magill, S. Aust.]: T. Lawrie, 1983 Magarey family. Personal papers, 1856-1932, PRG 343 Magarey, Thomas. Miscellaneous letters to John Ridley, 1856, 1877, 1881, PRG 1043/9/10-13 'Obituary', Chronicle, 6 September 1902, p. 34 |
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