Joseph Estlin (Estlin) Carpenter
1844–1927
Unitarian clergyman and professor. Son of William Benjamin Carpenter and his wife Louisa. Educated at University College, London, and Manchester New College, London. Minister at Bristol, 1866, and Leeds, 1869. Professor of ecclesiastical history, comparative religion, and Hebrew at Manchester New College from 1875; principal, 1906–15. Provisional committee member of the Association of Liberal Thinkers, 1878.
Sources
Letter from M. D. Conway, 18 November 1878
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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