John Stoughton

John Stoughton (18 November 1807 – 24 October 1897) was an English Nonconformist minister and historian.

Stoughton was educated at Norwich Grammar School, and, after an interval of legal study, at Highbury Congregational College.

In 1833 he became minister at Windsor, in 1843 at Kensington; in 1856 he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union.

[1] Stoughton contributed an account of Nonconformist modes of celebrating the Lord's Supper to the ritual commission of 1870, arranged a conference on co-operation between Anglicans and dissenters (presided over by Archbishop Tait) in 1876, was one of Dean Stanley's lecturers in Westminster Abbey and a pall-bearer at his funeral.

[1] Stoughton wrote works of English religious history: He also wrote more popular works, among which were Homes and Haunts of Luther (1875),[2] Footprints of Italian Reformers (1881), and The Spanish Reformers (1883),[1] Our English Bible: its translations and translators.