Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom

C H Spurgeon in 1864, 32 years before Herzl's Der Judenstaat,[10]Jewish Christians like Joseph Frey, who founded the London Society for the Jews, Joseph Woolf, and two theologians Ridley Herschell and Philip Hirschfeld formed an important link between the earlier Restorationism of German Lutheran pietists and British evangelicals, and played a large part in galvanizing widespread evangelical support in the UK.

[17] In 1840, G. W. Pieritz, another Jewish missionary for the London Society played an important role in exposing the Damascus blood libels to the British public in The Times.

[4] Early political momentum from the 1790s to encourage and facilitate a Jewish return to Israel was doctrinally post millennial in character, being based on Puritan teaching.

[4]Shaftesbury repeatedly lobbied Lord Palmerston for moves to stimulate Jewish return to the Middle East, primarily by the appointment of a British Consul in Jerusalem in 1838.

[3] Christian Zionists like John Henry Patterson[23] and Orde Wingate[24] played crucial roles in the initiation and development of the Haganah, sometimes despite British Government opposition.

"Memorandum to the Protestant Powers of the North of Europe and America", published in the Colonial Times (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), in 1841
William Hechler , an 'indefatigable' supporter of Theodor Herzl [ 1 ]
Christ Church , the first Protestant church in Jerusalem, and the result of a petition of 1,400 clergy and 15,000 laity on 18 March 1845 to Lord Aberdeen [ 20 ]