John Goodwyn Barmby

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John Goodwyn Barmby
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John Goodwyn Barmby
Born
Yoxford, Suffolk, England
Baptised12 November 1820
Died(1881-10-18)18 October 1881
Yoxford, Suffolk, England
Spouses
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(m. 1841; died 1853)​
Ada Marianne Shepherd
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(m. 1861)​

John Goodwyn Barmby (Bapt. 12 November 1820 – 18 October 1881)

Chartist movement
.

Barmby was born at Yoxford in Suffolk and educated at

utopian projects during the rise of Chartism. He founded a utopian community on the Channel Islands and at times corresponded with radicals including William James Linton and Friedrich Engels
.

Barmby also authored the first attested writing (1841) of communist in English;

church. The term "communism" was used slightly later, but certainly by the 1840s. As Donald F. Busky wrote, "Barmby may have thought that he invented the words communism and communist, but he was mistaken ... [I]n all probability [communist and communism were in use] by the 1830s or 1840s".[7]

Researchers at Rutgers University explain:

Seeking a richer spiritual life than Owenite socialism or Chartism offered, soon after their marriage Catherine and Goodwyn Barmby founded the Communist Church. Although the church expired in 1849, in the mid-1840s it had more than ten congregations.[8]

Disillusioned with communism, Barmby became involved with Unitarianism in 1848. After leading congregations at Southampton, Topsham, Lympstone and Lancaster, he was minister of Wakefield Unitarian Chapel from 1858 to 1879. He continued to contribute to liberal politics and published poetry and hymns.[9]

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1445. Retrieved 27 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41339. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ Harper, Douglas. "communist". Online Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-19-520469-7. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 18 December 2020.
  5. ISBN 9781789901627. Archived from the original
    on 8 August 2020.
  6. ^ Engels, F., Letter to editor
  7. ISBN 0-275-97748-X
    .
  8. ^ "Intro".
  9. ^ "Chartist Lives - John Goodwyn Barmby".

Further reading

  • Barbara Taylor (1983). Eve and the New Jerusalem. pp. 172–182.
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