William Urwick the younger
William Urwick the younger (1826–1905) was an Anglo-Irish nonconformist minister and antiquarian chronicler.
Life
Born at
On 19 June 1851 Urwick was ordained minister at Hatherlow, Cheshire, where he remained for twenty-three years, as pastor, and district secretary (later, president) of the Cheshire Congregational Union. Moving to London, he filled (1874–7) the chair of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at
On a visit to his sisters in the old family home at Dublin, Urwick died there on 20 August 1905.[1]
Works
Urwick published:[1]
- Historical Sketches of Nonconformity in the County Palatine of Chester, 1864; a collection of papers by local ministers and laymen, and Urwick's own work in it was criticised by Henry David Roberts in Matthew Henry and his Chapel (1901).
- Life and Letters of William Urwick, D.D., 1870, on his father.
- Ecumenical Councils, 6 pts. 1870.
- Errors of Ritualism, Manchester, 1872 (lectures).
- The Nonconformists and the Education Act, 1872.
- The Papacy and the Bible, Manchester, 1874, in controversy with Kenelm Vaughan.
- The Servant of Jehovah, 1877 (commentary on Isaiah lii. 13–liii. 12).
- Indian Pictures, 1881.
- Nonconformity in Herts (1884)
- Bible Truths and Church Errors, 1888, arguing to prove Baptist.
- Early History of Trinity College, Dublin (1892)
- Nonconformity in Worcester (1897);
He also translated from the German:[1]
- H. Martensen's Christian Dogmatics (1886);
- J. Müller's Christian Doctrine of Sin (1868, 2 vols.);
- Friedrich Bleek's Introduction to the New Testament (1869–70, 2 vols.);
- H. Cremer's Biblicotheological Lexicon of New Testament Greek (1872).
Urwick edited his father's Biographic Sketches of J. D. Latouche (1868), and T. A. Urwick's Records of the Family of … Urwick (1893).[1]
Family
Urwick married on 1 June 1859 Sophia (1832–1897), daughter of Thomas Hunter of Manchester. They had four sons and five daughters.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Urwick, William". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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