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Rev. John Relly . b. South sea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed. at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825; kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Gie en 1838; minister at Strange ways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for educating young men for home mi ions, which originated Unitarian home mi ionary board or college, of which he was the first principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the first editor of the Christian Teacher 1835; started the Unitarian Herald ; author of Voices of the church in reply to Dr. Strau 1845; Historical and Artistic illustrations of the Trinity 1846; Illustrations of the divine in Christianity 1849; Latin dictionary 1854; Christ the interpreter of scripture 1865; Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism 1868; Autobiography of Satan 1872. d. Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov. 1876. J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 13–17.