BROTHER TON

Edward . b. Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade; wrote letters on popular education in Manchester Guardian which led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for Education Act of 1870; author of Mormonism its rise and progre 1846; Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church 1860; editor and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical The Dawn (Manchester 1861–2); wrote Outlines of my mental history in the Intellectual Repository 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. d. Corn brook, Manchester 23 March 1866.