Edwin Paxton Hood

HOOD, Edwin Paxton. b. London, 24 October 1820; d. Paris, 12 June 1885. He was from a poor family: his father was an able seaman and his mother was a domestic servant. Both of his parents died before he was seven years old and he was brought up at Deptford by a heraldic painter and his wife. He was self-educated and began to lecture on temperance and peace, ca.1840; he was greatly influenced by the powerful preaching of Thomas Binney*. He was ordained into the Congregational ministry in 1852, and served at North Nibley, Gloucestershire (1852-57); Offord Road, Islington (1857-62); Brighton, Sussex (1862-73); Offord Road, again (1873-77); Manchester (1877-80, where he was forced to resign...