Thomas Child (minister)

The son of John Child, a heckle-comb maker, and his wife Grace M'Kay, he was born at Arbroath on 10 December 1839, and brought up in the Free Church of Scotland.

[1] Reading the Appeal by Samuel Noble led Child to accept the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg.

As a preacher of the New Church, he officiated at Newcastle-on-Tyne (1872), moving to Lowestoft (1874) and to Bath, Somerset (1876), where he was ordained on 15 October 1878.

[1] Child wrote on New Church principles, with Sir Isaac Pitman supporting some publications.

1907), prompted by Ernst Haeckel's treatment of the world riddle, and commended by Alfred Russel Wallace.