MIALL, EDWARD (1809-81). An advocate of English Church disestablishment. He was born in Portsmouth, England: studied at Wymondley Theological Institute. Hertfordshire; entered the independent ministry, and was installed pastor at Ware in 1831 and at Leicester in 1834. Becoming an active advocate of the disestablishment of the Church of England, he removed to London and established the Nonconform ist newspaper as the organ of that policy in 1841 ; he was elected to Parliament from Rochdale in 1852. He favored universal suffrage and opposed class legislation and compulsory religious education. De led in the establishment, in 1844, of the British Anti State Church Association, which afterwards be came the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control. In 1856 he introduced in the House of Commons a resolution on the disestablishment of the Irish Church. His
motion for a committee on the disestablishment of the English Church was introduced three times in and 1S72 and lost. He was appointed in 1858 a member of the Royal Commission on Education as a representative of the Noncon formists. Among his principal publi ea t ions are: Views of the Voluntary Principle (1845) ; Ethics of Nonconformity (1848) ; 7'he British Churches in Pclation to the British People (18491 : The Franchise as a Means of a People's Training (1S51) : Title Deeds of the Church of England to Ller Parochial Endowments (1862) Social Influences of the Stale Church (1867). Of less polemical character is An Editor Off the Line. or Wayside Musings and lleminiscenees (1863). A Life of Mall was published by his son Arthur Miall (London, 1884).