Career
Here he acquired a high reputation for eloquence and learning, his popularity with his flock being evinced by the fact that his connection with them was only terminated by his death. In 1876 he was appointed chairman of the Congregational Union. During his half-century of ministerial labour he published a large number of sermons and other fugitive pieces, and one work of a more substantial character, viz.
"Memorials of the Clayton Family," Octavo, 1867, which, as it contains correspondence never before published of the Countess of Huntingdon and other persons eminent in the religious world of the last century, has some pretensions to the character of an original authority.
The Dictionary of National Biography (1885) incorrectly states that "some years before his death he received from the Washington University the degree of Doctor of Divinity" Aveling actually received his honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1874 from Howard University located in Washington, District of Columbia Aveling died at Reedham, near Caterham on 3 July 1884, and was buried at the Abney Park Cemetery, London.
