Rev. Thomas Playford |
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| Title : | Rev. Thomas Playford |
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| Creator : | Duryea, Townsend, 1823-1888, photographer | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1865 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
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| Description : |
Thomas Playford was a former soldier in the British Army. Having migrated to Canada in 1834, he returned to London and then came to South Australia in 1844, taking up farming at Mitcham, near Adelaide. In 1848, with others who agreed with his teaching about the imminent second coming of Jesus, he formed a congregation and built the Bentham Street Christian Church. Playford was the unpaid pastor until his death in 1873. He was a founding member of the Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society and published several religious books, including a hymnbook containing many of his own works. His eldest son became Premier of South Australia in 1887, and his great-grandson was also to become premier, in 1938. |
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| Related names : | Playford, Thomas, 1795-1873 Playford, Thomas, 1837-1915 Playford, Thomas, Sir, 1896-1981 Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society Bentham Street Christian Church (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | 1865 |
| Place : | Adelaide (S. Aust.); Bentham Street (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| Further reading : | Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society. Society records, 1849-1990 Dickey, Brian, ed. Australian dictionary of evangelical biography, Sydney: Evangelical History Association, 1994 Hilliard, David. 'Unorthodox Christianity in South Australia: was South Australia really a paradise of dissent?', History Australia, Vol. 2, no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 38.1-38.10 Hussey, H. History of the Christian Church (Bentham Street Adelaide), c. 1884, D7479(T) Playford, Thomas. [Three letters to John Ridley], 1867,1873, PRG 1043/4/6; PRG 1043/9/17-18 Playford, Thomas. A small selection of original and other hymns, for the use of Christians, [Adelaide?: T. Playford?], 1860 Playford, Thomas. Sermons and other discourses, Adelaide: W.C. Rigby; Melbourne: George Robertson, 1872 'The Rev Thomas Playford', South Australian register, 9 October 1873, p. 15 |
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