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 A HISTORY OF LONDON buildings of the 19th century were often anomalous in style, but were usually commodious, substantial, and sometimes not lacking in dignity. As the century advanced improvement was visible ; Trinity Chapel, Poplar, built is 1842, is one of the best examples of the period. Space will only allow the mention of a few of the most prominent ministers of the half-century. Of orthodox Presbyterians Dr. Alexander Waugh and Dr. John Young were foremost ; of Independents the most conspicuous names were John and George Clayton, George Burder, J. Pye Smith, D.D.,Ebenezer Henderson, Ph.D., James Bennett, D.D., John Leifchild, D.D., and somewhat later John Campbell, D.D., and Thomas Binney, LL.D. ; with these may be named Alexander Fletcher, D.D., Matthew Wilks and James Sherman, whose ecclesiastical standing was somewhat anomalous ; prominent Baptists were Dr. F. A. Cox, Joseph Ivimey, Dr. Thomas Price, and a little later Dr. Steane and Baptist W. Noel, whose secession from the Established Church in 1848 excited much attention. The most notable Unitarians were Robert Aspland and Timothy Madge. The Census of 1851 afforded for the first time fairly reliable statistics not only as to the number of places of worship but as to the actual numbers of their congregations. The following is a concise summary "' ; — 1851 Presbyterians Independents Baptists Unitarians Quakers Moravians Wesleyans Other Methodists Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion Welsh Calvinistic Methodists . Sandemanians Svvedenborgians Catholic Apostolic Church Brethren Mormons Miscellaneous City, Wcitminitcr, aad Southwark Placet 9 31 23 3 2 2 16 7 I 3 I 105 Pcrions at Bcit-attcnded Scrriccs 4.776 16,959 6,+99 372 181 24S 3>o34 697 600 500 200 603 34,669 Marylebonc, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, and Lambeth Places 102 76 4 2 36 3 5 2 13 30 339 Total Pcrion* at Best-attended Seryices 3,980 45.519 21,335 693 183 17,268 4.614 4,622 495 1,600 60 1,296 3.679 105.344 Places 17 133 99 I 4 2 67 43 8 3 I 3 5 2 13 37 444 Person* at Beat-attended Serriccs 8,756 62,478 27,834 1,065 364 248 20,302 5,311 5,222 500 200 495 1,600 60 1,296 4,282 140,013 "" In summarizing these statistics the areas adopted are those of the parliamentar}' boroughs created by the Reform Act in 1832, of which Southwark is considerably more extensive than the ancient borough, and the outer boundary by no means coincides with that of the Bills of Mortality. The round numbers suggest that in some cases attendance was estimated, not actually counted. The ' Miscellaneous ' assemblies include unsectarian mission meetings in which two or more denominations united, a few exclusive and erratic sects, a number of 'Dissenters' and ' Calvinists ' who ought to have been classed as Independents, and several who disclaimed any distinctive title, but were really Brethren. About the time of the Census there had been a vigorous propaganda of the American sect of Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, which soon dwindled to very small proportions. .•^94