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The Rev Dr John Pye-Smith FRS, FGS (25

May 1774 – 5 February 1851) was a Congregational theologian

and tutor, associated with reconciling geological sciences with

the Bible, repealing the Corn Laws and abolishing slavery.

He was the author of many learned works. The son of a Sheffield bookseller, Pye-Smith was surrounded by books

in his youth and was practically self-taught: he did take Latin lessons from Jehoiada Brewer. He became a Dissenting academic

and author, and was the first Fellow of the Royal Society from a Nonconformist background. He was also elected a Fellow of

the Geological Society at

a time when there was considerable debate about accepting the idea of

geological time, and if so to find ways of reconciling this with the teachings

of the Old Testament. He was an

advocate of gap creationism. Throughout

his life he worked for the abolition of slavery.

During the politically turbulent 1790s, Pye-Smith took over the editorship of

the Sheffield Iris, the

leading abolitionist newspaper in the North of England, during the imprisonment of its editor, his

friend James Montgomery. In 1830

Pye-Smith took the Chair of the Board of Congregational Ministers when it passed an

anti-slavery motion to secure support from all Congregational chapels across

the country in petitioning parliament: "That we feel it to be a solemn

duty to employ our influence with our congregations and the public, to promote

petitions to both Houses of Parliament for the abolition of Colonial Slavery,

and therefore pledge ourselves, and beg to recommend to our brethren throughout

the kingdom to prepare from each congregation such petitions to

parliament..." The Congregationalists' 1833 abolition lecture, "The

Sinfulness of Colonial Slavery", was delivered at John Pye-Smith's Meeting

House in Hackney by his former

pupil, Robert Halley. A ministers, including Pye-Smith, founded Mill Hill School. for boys on 25 January 1807. Pye-Smith

was the theological tutor at the Dissenting academy known

as Homerton College near Hackney, London for forty-five years between 1805 and 1850.

His pupils included Robert Halley, future Principal of New College, London; Samuel Dyer, the missionary; and William Johnson Fox of

the South Place Chapel, later the South Place Ethical

Society. Pye-Smith was minister of the Old Gravel Pit Chapel in

Chatham Place, Hackney for nearly as long, from 1811–50. Dr John Pye Smith died

in Hackney in 1851 and is buried below a marble chest tomb monument in Dr

Watts' Walk, at the garden cemetery in

the grounds of Abney Park, Stoke Newington, north London.He was the grandfather of Philip Henry Pye-Smith.

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