A public ham sandwich tea will be provided in the Congress Hall’ ‘We are rushing into war.…It is a field of blood already. She taught at Sunday school and gave classes before meeting her future husband at a tea party in 1852. In 1844 the family moved again, to London, and shortly afterward 16-year-old Catherine experienced the divine moment that finally convinced her of salvation while she was reading a Charles Wesley hymn. She held strong moral convictions and joined the Temperance Movement. Like William, Catherine was frequently sickly throughout life, but where she differed from him was in her close study of theology. In fact, Catherine’s formal education effectively began when she was 12. Her father had been an occasional preacher before losing his faith however, her mother was so zealously pious that she kept Catherine away from school lest she pick up undesirable habits from less God-fearing children. She was born January 17, 1829, in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, although the family later moved back to Boston, Lincolnshire. If William had shown precocious teenage interest in preaching in Nottingham, Catherine’s youth was no less remarkable. More important, in 1855 he married Catherine Mumford. Eventually, he threw off pawnbroking and became a minister for the Methodist New Connexion. He therefore easily moved between several churches that had sprung from the disputes that racked Wesleyan Methodism in the 19th century. Then in 1849, he moved to London to continue preaching-and pawnbroking-there.īooth’s approach to religion was instinctive rather than intellectual, and he had little time for academic or theological debate. Despite ill health, which would dog him all his life, the zealous adolescent began spreading religion in the back streets of Nottingham. Inspired by the fiery theatricality of the likes of controversial American preacher James Caughey, who traveled around England between 18, Booth felt God was calling him to some (as yet unspecified) great work. He also began taking the first steps in his religious career-away from the “formal, unfriendly” services of the Church of England, into Methodism. Samuel was variously an entrepreneur and builder, but when he died in 1842 family finances were in such a ruinous state that 13-year-old William was apprenticed to a local pawnbroker to help support his mother and sisters.
William Booth was born, the third child of Samuel and Mary, on April 10, 1829, at 12 Notintone Place, Sneinton, Nottingham (now his birthplace museum). Edward Jenner - The founder of immunology.John Knox - the Scottish religious reformer.
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