Barnett, Samuel Augustus

BARNETT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS: Church of England; b. at Bristol Feb. 8, 1844. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford (B.A., 1865), and was ordered deacon in 1867 and priested in the following year. He was curate of St. Mary’s, Bryanston Square, London, in 1867-72, vicar of St. Jude’s, Whitechapel, in 1872-93, and curate of the wane church in 1897-1903. In 1884 he founded Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, of which he has since been warden, as well as chairman of the White chapel Board of Guardians, of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund, and of the Pupil Teachers’ Scholarship Fund. In 1893 he was appointed a canon of Bristol Cathedral, and was also select preacher at Oxford in 1896-97 and at Cambridge in 1900. In addition to minor contributions, he has written Practicable Socialism (in collaboration with his wife, London, 1893) and The Service of God (1895).