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Dawson Burns (1828–1909) was an English Baptist minister and temperance activist. ==Life== Born at Southwark on 22 January 1828, was he was a younger son of Jabez Burns, Baptist minister of New Church Street Chapel on Edgware Road, a temperance advocate from 1836. His mother was Jane, daughter of George Dawson of Keighley. At twelve Dawson Burns took the pledge and addressed the young members of his father's congregation in New Church Street. In February 1845 he became assistant secretary to the National Temperance Society, and a year later joint secretary, editing its monthly organ, the ''Temperance Chronicle''. He was official reporter of the World's Convention held in August 1846, in which his father took a prominent part. From September 1847 to 1850 he studied at the General Baptist College, then at Leicester, becoming pastor of the Baptist chapel at Salford in September 1851. In 1853 he helped Nathaniel Card, a Quaker, to found in Manchester the United Kingdom Alliance with a view to influencing the licensing laws. He was in London in March 1853 as metropolitan superintendent, and was enrolled the sixth member on 1 June 1853. Living in North London, he worked energetically for the temperance cause with pen and speech. He was made an hon. M.A. of Bates College, Maine, U.S.A., in 1869 and afterwards D.D. On his father's death in 1876 he took over the pastorate of New Church Street Chapel, where he had assisted, but resigned it in 1881, to devote himself to temperance work. He represented the Baptist New Connexion at the centennial conference in America in 1880, acted as secretary to the Temperance Hospital opened in 1881, and was president of the Association of General Baptists held at Norwich in the same year. He promoted temperance legislation, holding that the law should protect the public and not the liquor trade. Burns died at Battersea on 22 August 1909, and was buried at Paddington. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dawson Burns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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