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            London Missionary Society</headword><headwordInfo>
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                         <span role="ency">(<i>act.</i>
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   <p>Founders of the London Missionary Society (<i>act.</i>
     <date role="floruit" isoDate="1795">1795</date>), were a group who came together
                with the interdenominational, essentially ecumenical vision of uniting within and
                outside <place>Britain</place> as many supporters as possible of Christian missions.
                Originally founded in September 1795 as the <nameGrp nameType="nonPersonal" mainName="Missionary Society">Missionary Society</nameGrp>, sometimes known as the
       <nameGrp nameType="nonPersonal" mainName="General Missionary Society">General
                  Missionary Society</nameGrp>, the society remained as it began, an entirely
                autonomous, voluntary body, dependent financially on individual subscriptions or
                donations, and free of control by any of the churches from which it recruited.
                However, it gradually evolved as the missionary umbrella for Independents and
                Congregationalists throughout the <place>British Isles</place>, and was formally
                constituted as the <nameGrp nameType="nonPersonal" mainName="London Missionary Society LMS">London Missionary Society (LMS)</nameGrp>
                in 1818. </p>
   <p>Many of its founders were first drawn closely together in 1793. <xrefGrp>
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                                     <span>John
                Eyre</span>
                                 </xref>
                             </xrefGrp>, who combined Anglican orders and links with the
       <nameGrp mainNameType="var" foreTitle="countess of Huntingdon's" role="aristocratic">countess of Huntingdon's</nameGrp> colleges at
       <place>Trefeca</place> and <place>Cheshunt</place>, devised and launched the <span role="work">
                                 <i>Evangelical Magazine</i>
                             </span> in July that year as a forum for
                the dissemination of revival news, information, and ideas among Anglicans,
                Independents, and dissenters. <nameGrp mainName="Eyre">Eyre</nameGrp> was assisted
                by other figures such as the Congregationalist <xrefGrp>
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                                     <span>Edward
                  Parsons</span>
                                 </xref>
                             </xrefGrp>, the <nameGrp nameType="nonPersonal" mainName="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</nameGrp> minister <xrefGrp>
                                 <xref ref="odnb-9780198614128-e-17042" type="1">
                                     <span>John
                  Love</span>
                                 </xref>
                             </xrefGrp>, and <nameGrp mainName="John Townshend 1757&#x2013;1826">John Townshend (1757–1826)</nameGrp>, minister of the Independent church in
       <place>Bermondsey</place>...</p>
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