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Robert Little (1762 – October 5, 1827) was a Unitarian minister. He was born in England in 1762. He immigrated to the United States in 1819 because of poor health and religious restrictions in England against all churches except the Church of England.〔 He was the first pastor of ''First Unitarian Church'' in Washington, D.C. and was instrumental in its formation in 1821. He served in that position until 1827 when he died an unexpected death. ==Biography== Rev. Robert Little's first charge was the Paradise Street Independent Church in Birmingham from 1791 until 1797. In 1797 he moved to Hanley in Staffordshire. From 1801 until 1806 he ministered to Perth Congregational Church. Later he was pastor of the Little Cannon Street meeting house, built in 1809 by the congregation of Paradise Street chapel, formerly Congregational in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England which was closed in 1814. He moved in 1817 to a Unitarian Church at Gainsborough. He had been educated in the Established Church of England, but had become a convert to Unitarianism about 1814 after changing his views about infant baptism, the role of the minister, and congregational practices that "relied on the English notions of status."〔 He had a long association with the Rev. John Campbell and Rev. James Kay, both former Baptists who had gravitated to Unitarianism. Both played important roles in the founding of the church in the United States.〔 Little delivered a sermon before the ''Unitarian Tract Society'' of Birmingham, England, "which attracted great attention" shortly before he departed for America.〔 After he arrived in the U.S. in 1819, Little settled in Washington, D.C. where he lived in East Washington on Pennsylvania Avenue. He is presumed to have worked in the United States Treasury and had originally planned on starting his own business because "the failure of his health rendered it necessary for him to withdraw from the ministry,"〔 however, he was "called into service by Unitarians in the community."〔 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「Robert Little (minister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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