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Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd baronet (21 April 1805 21 May 1863), born Culling Eardley Smith, was a Christian campaigner for

religious freedom and for the protestant cause, one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance.

Early life

Born London, his father, Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet (17681829), was of Huguenot extraction and his mother, Charlotte Elizabeth (d. 15

Sept 1826) was the daughter of Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley, and hence the granddaughter of JewishfinancierSampson Gideon.

Though the title Baron Eardley had not survived, Charlotte Elizabeth was heiress to much of the Eardley estate.[1]

Smith attended Eton College and Oriel College, Oxford where, though he passed his BA examinations, he never graduated, having become a

convinced evangelical Christian. He succeeded to his baronetcy on his father's death in 1829 and married Isabella Carr (died 1 May 1860) in

1832. They had one son, Eardley Gideon Culling Eardley (18381875), and two daughters. He inherited Bedwell Park, Hertfordshire from his

father. From his cousin William Thomas Eardley-Twisleton-Fiennes, 15th Baron Saye and Sele he inherited Belvedere, Erith, Kent and the

Eardley estates in 1847 and changed his name from Smith to Eardley by royal license.[1]

Politics and campaigning

An instinctive campaigner with an interest in reform of the poor laws, Eardley was briefly LiberalMember of Parliament for Pontefract from 1830

to 1831. Though he stood again, unsuccessfully, in the United Kingdom general election, 1837, his principal driver was his religious faith.[1]

Eardley was raised in the Church of England and despite his subsequent convictions, in particular his condemnation of State religion, remained

a member. His beliefs were closely related to Congregationalism, though he never left the Anglican church. In 1839 he became chairman and

treasurer of the Evangelical Voluntary Church Association, which campaigned for disestablishment. When the Association was dissolved in

1844, Eardley became chairman of the Anti-Maynooth Committee and Conference which campaigned, without success, against the Maynooth

Grant.[1]

In 1845/ 6, with evangelist Ridley Haim Herschell he became, one of the founders, and first chairman, of the Evangelical Alliance.[2]

He again attempted to return to politics to found a platform for his campaigning zeal, fighting Edinburgh in 1846, against Thomas Babington

Macaulay who supported Maynooth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1848. However, he was increasingly drawn to campaigning for freedom

of religion, Protestant, Roman Catholic, or Jewish. He established an influential international network that included Giuseppe Garibaldi, Christian

Charles Josias Bunsen and Frederick William IV of Prussia. He was treasurer of the London Missionary Society from 1844 to 1863, and of a

fund for relief of Lebanese Christians after the 1861 massacres. He worked hard to maintain broad friendly relationships with all creeds and

strove to improve relationships between the Church of England and noncomformists.[1] In 1844, he gave financial support to Ridley Haim

Herschell's Trinity Chappel in Edgware Road, London.[3]

However, he was a particularly strong supporter of those who felt themselves excluded from the Church of England by the practices of the AngloCatholics. From 1850 to 1853, he sponsored, and gave financial support, to the construction of an evangelical church at Furrough Cross,

Babbacombe, defying Henry PhillpottsBishop of Exeter. He also built a church on his Erith estate.[1] He was also a prominent supporter of

Giacinto Achilli's, ultimately discredited, evangelical campaign in Britain.[4]

Personal life

Mostly resident a Bedwell, he lived at Belvedere from 1848 to 1858 and also had a house at Frognel, Torquay in the 1850s. He suffered from

poor health in later life but died at Bedwell from an adverse reaction to a smallpox vaccination.[1]

References

1. ^ abcdefgWolffe (2004)

2. ^ Henderson, Geoffrey (April 2007). All Love A Biography of Ridley Herschell, page 130. [HTS Media]. ISBN978-0-9555304-0-1.

3. ^ Stunt, T. C. F. (2004) "Herschell, Ridley Haim (18071864) ", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 4

March 2008 subscription or UK public library membership required

4. ^ Gilley, S. (2004) "Achilli, (Giovanni) Giacinto (b. c.1803) ", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 July

2007 subscription or UK public library membership required

Bibliography

By Eardley

Eardley, C. E. (1835). Suggestions Addressed, by Permission of the Board, to the Secretary of the Poor Law Commissioners. Roake &

Contents[hide]

1 Early life

2 Politics and campaigning

3 Personal life

4 References

5 Bibliography

5.1 By Eardley

5.2 Obituaries

5.3 About Eardley

6 External links

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Obituaries

The Times, 22 May 1863

The Record[magazine of Oriel College, Oxford], 22 May 1863

Evangelical Christendom, 17 (1863), 25760

About Eardley

Lewis, D. M. (ed.) (1995). The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 17301860(2 vols. ed.). ISBN 0631173846.

Mackintosh, W. H. (1972). Disestablishment and Liberation: TheMovement for the Separation of the Anglican Church from State Control.

Epworth Press. ISBN 0716202026.

Wolffe, J. (1991). The Protestant Crusade in Great Britain, 18291860. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198201990.

(2004) "Eardley , Sir Culling Eardley, third baronet (18051863) ", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press,

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External links

Hansard 18032005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Culling Eardley

Belvedere at Bexley Council website

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