Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd Baronet ( Smith; 21 April 1805 – 21 Mei 1863) adalah seorang pengkampanye Kristen Inggris untuk kebebasan beragama dan untuk sebab-sebab Protestan, salah satu pendiri Evangelical Alliance.

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Lahir di London, ayahnya, Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet (1768–1829), berdarah Huguenot dan ibunya, Charlotte Elizabeth (wafat 15 Sept 1826) adalah putri dari Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley, dan merupakan cucu dari pakar keuangan Yahudi Sampson Gideon. Meskipun tidak mewarisi gelar Baron Eardley, Charlotte Elizabeth merupakan pewaris dari sebagian besar lahan Eardley.[1]

Smith masuk Eton College dan Oriel College, Oxford dimana, meskipun masuk program sarjana, ia tak pernah meluluskannya, dalam rangka menjadi Kristen evangelikal. Ia meneruskan kebaronan setelah ayahnya wafat pada 1829 dan menikahi Isabella Carr (wafat 1 Mei 1860) pada 1832. Mereka memiliki satu putra, Eardley Gideon Culling Eardley (1838–1875), dan dua putri. Ia mewarisi Bedwell Park, Hertfordshire dari ayahnya. Dari sepupunya William Thomas Eardley-Twisleton-Fiennes, 15th Baron Saye and Sele, ia mewarisi lahan Belvedere, Erith, Kent dan Eardley pada 1847 dan mengubah namanya dari Smith menjadi Eardley menurut lisensi kerajaan.[1]

Referensi sunting

  1. ^ a b Wolffe (2004)

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Karya Eardley sunting

  • Eardley, C. E. (1835). Suggestions Addressed, by Permission of the Board, to the Secretary of the Poor Law Commissioners. Roake & Varty. 
  • — (1841). An Englishman's Thoughts on the Scotch Church. W. Tyler. 
  • — (1846a). A Few Words to the Electors of Edinburgh: With a Corrected Report of Some Speeches Delivered During the Late Contest. Roake & Varty. 
  • — (1846b). City Election: Speech of Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Delivered on the Hustings at his Nomination, on Friday, 10th July, 1846. s.n. 
  • — (1849). An Appeal to my Fellow Townsmen in Torquay: And through them to the People of Devonshire and of the Three kingdoms on Behalf of the Rev. James Shore, ..., ... of the Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Exeter. Partridge & Oakey. 
  • — (1855). Christianity in Turkey: Correspondence of the Governments of Christendom Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism. Partridge & Oakey. 
  • — (1856a). The Rights of the Laity in the Universities: A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Monteagle, and a Correspondence with the Rev. Dr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 1854-5. Daniel F. Oakey. 
  • — (1856b). The Rights of the Laity in the Church: A Letter to the Rev. Henry Newland, M.A. James Ridgway. 
  • — (1863). The Spanish prisoners: Our Duties, Encouragements, and Prospects: A Letter to the Earl of Roden. James Nisbet & Co. 

Obituari sunting

  • The Times, 22 May 1863
  • The Record [magazine of Oriel College, Oxford], 22 May 1863
  • Evangelical Christendom, 17 (1863), 257–60

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