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'''Thomas Swan''' (1795 – 1857) was a ] abolitionist baptist minister. He worked in India before leading the Baptist Church in Birmingham. '''Thomas Swan''' (1795 – 1857) was a British abolitionist baptist minister. He worked in India before leading the Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.


==Life== ==Life==
Swan was born in 1795.<ref name=bcc/> He was employed by the Baptist Missionary Society and he taught theology in ] in India where his and his wife Elizabeth's first child was born.
Swan was born in 1795.<ref name=bcc/>


He returned to Britain from India in 1828 to lead the Cannon Street Baptist Church.<ref name=bcc/> He returned to Britain in 1828 to lead the large Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.<ref name=bcc/>


In 1837 his grateful congregation awarded hima silver medal in celebration of the chapel's centenary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birmingham, Canon Street, Baptist Meeting House - Item 3412 (Image:C) - historicmedals.com |url=https://www.historicmedals.com/viewItem.php?no=3412&b=1&img=C |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.historicmedals.com}}</ref> In 1837 his grateful congregation awarded him a silver medal in celebration of the chapel's centenary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birmingham, Canon Street, Baptist Meeting House - Item 3412 (Image:C) - historicmedals.com |url=https://www.historicmedals.com/viewItem.php?no=3412&b=1&img=C |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.historicmedals.com}}</ref>
{{Anti-Slavery Society Convention 1840|align=right|size=300px|caption=Swan and Knibb are to the right of Sturge who is one of the larger figures in this painting which is of the 1840 ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00028/The-Anti-Slavery-Society-Convention-1840? |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.npg.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>}}
In 1839 Swan became the President of the ].<ref name=popen>{{Cite web |last=Christine |date=2019-09-26 |title=A Blue Plaque to Revd Thomas Swan |url=https://birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk/a-blue-plaque-to-revd-thomas-swan/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Birmingham Civic Society |language=en-US}}</ref> and the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society became the Birmingham Branch of the ]. This society was planning a major convention in 1840 with Bitmingham Quaker ] taking the lead. Swan was able to meet the Jamaican missionary ] who Swan and Joseph Sturge had worked hard to support.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Christine |date=2019-10-30 |title=Reverend Thomas Swan (1795 – 1857), Baptist Minister and Social Reformer |url=https://birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk/reverend-thomas-swan-1795-1857-baptist-minister-and-social-reformer/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Birmingham Civic Society |language=en-US}}</ref> They were both based in Birmingham and the frequent letters between them and Knibb illustrate their joint aim of the abolition of slavery.<ref name="bcc" /> Swan was one of nearly 500 delegates to the ]. The more notable delegates were included in a commemorative painting and Swan, Sturge and William Knibb all appear in the painting. In 1842 the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society met at Swan's church.<ref name="bcc" />


==Death and legacy== ==Death and legacy==
Sawn died in 1857. His portrait is in the National Gallery as part of ] 1941 painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas Swan - Person Extended - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personExtended/mp04386/thomas-swan |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref> and ] has a portrait of him by Janet Russel Swan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.si.edu/object/reverend-thomas-swan-1795-1857-painting:siris_ari_195003 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.si.edu}}</ref> Swan was still the minister in Cannon Street when he died in 1857. His portrait is in the ] as part of ]'s 1941 painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas Swan - Person Extended - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personExtended/mp04386/thomas-swan |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref> and ] has a portrait of him by Janet Russel Swan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Reverend Thomas Swan (1795-1857), (painting)|url=https://www.si.edu/object/reverend-thomas-swan-1795-1857-painting:siris_ari_195003 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.si.edu}}</ref> His church in Birmingham was demolished as part of refurbishment in the 19th century, but the Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church was created in Handsworth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resource Details - Birmingham Images |url=https://www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=161&SearchType=2&ThemeID=513 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk}}</ref> His son ] served in New Zealand's parliament.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of NZ Biography |url=https://dict-bio.howison.co.nz/browse/s |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=dict-bio.howison.co.nz |language=en}}</ref>


A blue plaque was created by the Birmingham Civic Society.<ref name=bcc>{{Cite web |last=Christine |date=2019-10-30 |title=Reverend Thomas Swan (1795 – 1857), Baptist Minister and Social Reformer |url=https://birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk/reverend-thomas-swan-1795-1857-baptist-minister-and-social-reformer/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Birmingham Civic Society |language=en-US}}</ref> A blue plaque was created for him by the Birmingham Civic Society.<ref name=bcc>{{Cite web |last=Christine |date=2019-10-30 |title=Reverend Thomas Swan (1795 – 1857), Baptist Minister and Social Reformer |url=https://birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk/reverend-thomas-swan-1795-1857-baptist-minister-and-social-reformer/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Birmingham Civic Society |language=en-US}}</ref> It was unveiled in 2019 and it was later installed on his home in Yew Tree Road.<ref name=popen/>


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Thomas Swan
Born1795
Died9 March 1857(1857-03-09) (aged 61–62)
Glasgow
NationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation(s)Professor and Baptist minister
EmployerBaptist Missionary Society
Known forabolitionist

Thomas Swan (1795 – 1857) was a British abolitionist baptist minister. He worked in India before leading the Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

Life

Swan was born in 1795. He was employed by the Baptist Missionary Society and he taught theology in Serampore College in India where his and his wife Elizabeth's first child was born.

He returned to Britain in 1828 to lead the large Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

In 1837 his grateful congregation awarded him a silver medal in celebration of the chapel's centenary.

Isaac Crewdson (Beaconite) writerSamuel Jackman Prescod - Barbadian JournalistWilliam Morgan from BirminghamWilliam Forster - Quaker leaderGeorge Stacey - Quaker leaderWilliam Forster - Anti-Slavery ambassadorJohn Burnet -Abolitionist SpeakerWilliam Knibb -Missionary to JamaicaJoseph Ketley from GuyanaGeorge Thompson - UK & US abolitionistJ. Harfield Tredgold - British South African (secretary)Josiah Forster - Quaker leaderSamuel Gurney - the Banker's BankerSir John Eardley-WilmotDr Stephen Lushington - MP and JudgeSir Thomas Fowell BuxtonJames Gillespie Birney - AmericanJohn BeaumontGeorge Bradburn - Massachusetts politicianGeorge William Alexander - Banker and TreasurerBenjamin Godwin - Baptist activistVice Admiral MoorsonWilliam TaylorWilliam TaylorJohn MorrisonGK PrinceJosiah ConderJoseph SoulJames Dean (abolitionist)John Keep - Ohio fund raiserJoseph EatonJoseph Sturge - Organiser from BirminghamJames WhitehorneJoseph MarriageGeorge BennettRichard AllenStafford AllenWilliam Leatham, bankerWilliam BeaumontSir Edward Baines - JournalistSamuel LucasFrancis Augustus CoxAbraham BeaumontSamuel Fox, Nottingham grocerLouis Celeste LecesneJonathan BackhouseSamuel BowlyWilliam Dawes - Ohio fund raiserRobert Kaye Greville - BotanistJoseph Pease - reformer in India)W.T.BlairM.M. Isambert (sic)Mary Clarkson -Thomas Clarkson's daughter in lawWilliam TatumSaxe Bannister - PamphleteerRichard Davis Webb - IrishNathaniel Colver - Americannot knownJohn Cropper - Most generous LiverpudlianThomas ScalesWilliam JamesWilliam WilsonRev. Thomas SwanEdward Steane from CamberwellWilliam BrockEdward BaldwinJonathon MillerCapt. Charles Stuart from JamaicaSir John Jeremie - JudgeCharles Stovel - BaptistRichard Peek, ex-Sheriff of LondonJohn SturgeElon GalushaCyrus Pitt GrosvenorRev. Isaac BassHenry SterryPeter Clare -; sec. of Literary & Phil. Soc. ManchesterJ.H. JohnsonThomas PriceJoseph ReynoldsSamuel WheelerWilliam BoultbeeDaniel O'Connell - "The Liberator"William FairbankJohn WoodmarkWilliam Smeal from GlasgowJames Carlile - Irish Minister and educationalistRev. Dr. Thomas BinneyEdward Barrett - Freed slaveJohn Howard Hinton - Baptist ministerJohn Angell James - clergymanJoseph CooperDr. Richard Robert Madden - IrishThomas BulleyIsaac HodgsonEdward SmithSir John Bowring - diplomat and linguistJohn EllisC. Edwards Lester - American writerTapper Cadbury - Businessmannot knownThomas PinchesDavid Turnbull - Cuban linkEdward AdeyRichard BarrettJohn SteerHenry TuckettJames Mott - American on honeymoonRobert Forster (brother of William and Josiah)Richard RathboneJohn BirtWendell Phillips - AmericanJean-Baptiste Symphor Linstant de Pradine from HaitiHenry Stanton - AmericanProf William AdamMrs Elizabeth Tredgold - British South AfricanT.M. McDonnellMrs John BeaumontAnne Knight - FeministElizabeth Pease - SuffragistJacob Post - Religious writerAnne Isabella, Lady Byron - mathematician and estranged wifeAmelia Opie - Novelist and poetMrs Rawson - Sheffield campaignerThomas Clarkson's grandson Thomas ClarksonThomas MorganThomas Clarkson - main speakerGeorge Head Head - Banker from CarlisleWilliam AllenJohn ScobleHenry Beckford - emancipated slave and abolitionistUse your cursor to explore (or Click "i" to enlarge)
Swan and Knibb are to the right of Sturge who is one of the larger figures in this painting which is of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention.

In 1839 Swan became the President of the Baptist Union. and the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society became the Birmingham Branch of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. This society was planning a major convention in 1840 with Bitmingham Quaker Joseph Sturge taking the lead. Swan was able to meet the Jamaican missionary William Knibb who Swan and Joseph Sturge had worked hard to support. They were both based in Birmingham and the frequent letters between them and Knibb illustrate their joint aim of the abolition of slavery. Swan was one of nearly 500 delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. The more notable delegates were included in a commemorative painting and Swan, Sturge and William Knibb all appear in the painting. In 1842 the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society met at Swan's church.

Death and legacy

Swan was still the minister in Cannon Street when he died in 1857. His portrait is in the National Gallery as part of Benjamin Robert Haydon's 1941 painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention and the Smithsonian has a portrait of him by Janet Russel Swan. His church in Birmingham was demolished as part of refurbishment in the 19th century, but the Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church was created in Handsworth. His son William Turnbull Swan served in New Zealand's parliament.

A blue plaque was created for him by the Birmingham Civic Society. It was unveiled in 2019 and it was later installed on his home in Yew Tree Road.

References

  1. ^ Christine (2019-10-30). "Reverend Thomas Swan (1795 – 1857), Baptist Minister and Social Reformer". Birmingham Civic Society. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  2. "Birmingham, Canon Street, Baptist Meeting House - Item 3412 (Image:C) - historicmedals.com". www.historicmedals.com. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  3. "The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  4. ^ Christine (2019-09-26). "A Blue Plaque to Revd Thomas Swan". Birmingham Civic Society. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  5. Christine (2019-10-30). "Reverend Thomas Swan (1795 – 1857), Baptist Minister and Social Reformer". Birmingham Civic Society. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  6. "Thomas Swan - Person Extended - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  7. "The Reverend Thomas Swan (1795-1857), (painting)". www.si.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  8. "Resource Details - Birmingham Images". www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  9. "Dictionary of NZ Biography". dict-bio.howison.co.nz. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
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