Miall

Miall, EDWARD, an apostle of disestablishment, was born in 1809, and served as an Independent minister at Ware, and afterwards at Leicester, down to 1840, when he founded the Nonconformist newspaper. In 1844 he helped to establish the British Anti-state Church Association, known later as the Liberation Society, and sat in the House of Commons for Rochdale, 1852-67, and for Bradford, 1869-74. On retiring he was presented with ten thousand guineas. He died at Sevenoaks, 29th April 1881. See the Life by A. Miall (1884).