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Andrew Reed was born on November 27, 1787 in London, England.
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A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches; Volume 1
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Andrew Reed
Edit ProfileEducation
He entered Hackney Academy in 1807 to study theology under George Collison.
Career
In 1807 he was ordained minister of New Road Chapel in 1811. About 1830 he built the larger Wycliffe Chapel, where he remained until 1861. He visited America on a deputation to the Congregational Churches in 1834 and received the degree of D. D. from Yale. Reed's name is permanently associated with a long list of philanthropic achievements, including the London Orphan Asylum, the Infant Orphan Asylum and the Reedham Orphanage, which he undertook on non-denominational lines because the governors of the other institutions had made the Anglican Catechism compulsory. Besides these he originated in 1847 an asylum for idiots at Highgate, afterwards moved to Earlswood in Surrey with a branch at Colchester, and in 1855 the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Besides an account of his visit to America (2 vols. , 1834), he compiled a hymn-book (1841), and published some sermons and books of devotion.
Achievements
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He founded several important charitable institutions on a non-denominational basis, including the Idiot Asylum at Earlswood now the Royal Earlswood Hospital; the Infant Orphan Asylum (1827) at Wanstead; the Royal Hospital for Incurables (1855) at Putney now the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability; and the London Asylum for Orphans 1813, initially at Lower Clapton in the parish of Hackney.
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Memoirs of the Life and Philanthropic Labours of Andrew Reed
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A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches; Volume 1
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Memoirs of the Life and Philanthropic Labours of Andrew Reed
Politics
Reed was active in supporting repeal of the Corn Laws, Dr Philip's initiative to right some of the wrongs of the native people of South Africa by financing their trip to London to speak directly to a Committee of the House of Commons, and took part in conferences in America (as one of two international delegates from the Congregational Union of England & Wales) in the 1830s, one of which led to the formation of Boston's first anti-slavery society.
Connections
He married Elizabeth Holmes Reed.
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Religion
Protestant