THESES
Amaru, Betsy Halpern Arminianism England, 1599-1629 (Unpublished University of Massachusetts Ph.D. thesis, 1969)
Anderson, A. 'From puritanism to nonconformity, 1680-89: a study in the development of Protestant Dissent, with special reference to Yorkshire' (unpublished Ph. D thesis, University, 1980)
Billington, R. Leicester Secular Society, 1852-1920: a study in radicalism and respectability (Dissertation, University of Leicester, 1868)
• Blazier, Stella M. ‘The Wolverhanmpton Case’ (MA thesis Wolverhampton Polytechnic, 1985)
Bolam, C. Gordon 'The changes and development within Presbyterianism in the counties of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham from its organisation in the Commonwealth to the transformation to Independency and Unitarianism c. 1780' (Unpublished M.A. thesis Nottingham, 1957)
Brockett, Allan A. Nonconformity in Exeter, 1650-1875 (Unpublished thesis, ??? University, 1960) [copy at DWL]*
Bushrod, Emily The history of Unitarianism in Birmingham from the middle of the eighteenth century to 1893 (University of Birmingham, MA Thesis, 1954)
Campbell, C. B. Humanism and the culture if the professions: a study of the rise of the British Humanist movemnt, 1946-1963 (Ph.D thesis, University of London, 1968)
Carlton, Eric James 'The Unitarian movement in England' [Ph. D. University of London, 1972)
Cox, Kenneth was proposing a thesis on 19th century Unitarian hymns at Liverpool Hope University (2001)
Ditchfield, Grayson M. 'Some aspects of Unitarianism and radicalism, 1760-1810' (unpublished Ph. thesis Cambridge University, 1968)
Fitzpatrick, Martin Rational Dissent in the late eighteenth century with particular reference to the growth of toleration (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1982)
Francis, Philip is writing (2000) an Oxford D. Phil thesis ‘Developments in the Doctrine of God; the politics of religion in England in the period 1719-1820, with special reference to Thomas Emlyn, Richard Price and Joseph Priestley.
“Basically I am attempting to identify the social determinants of theology that affected the English Presbyterians and ask how much of the changes in doctrine were theological and how much social and political? My supervisor is Ralph Waller.”
Genischen, Werner Die Wittenberger antisozinianische Polimik. Ein Beitrag zurAuseinandersetzung von Reformation und Humanismus (University of Gottingen dissertation, 1942)
• Gomes, Alan W. ‘Faustus Socinus’ [Ph. D dissertation Fuller Theological Seminary, 1990]
Gray, Kathleen 'Some contributions to the early history of nonconformity in Rossendale' (MA, Wales, Aberystwyth, 1942)
Griffiths, O. M. 'English Presbyterian thought from 1662 to the foundation of the Unitarian movement (University of Bristol Ph.D 1933) [her book is presumbly a version of this]
Harrop, S. The place of education in the genesis of the Industrial Revolution with particular reference to Stalybridge, Dukinfield and Hyde (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Manchester, 1976)
James, Marion E. Stand fast in liberty: a study of Unitarian politics in the reign of George III (Ph.D dissertation, Radcliffe College, 1955) list of heterodox congregations with their ministers
Jones, A. A thesis and survey of the Nonconformist chapel architecture in Merthyr Tydfil(1962)
• Keller, Carol Ann 'Pundit and pulpit`: teaching the Victorians - Harriet and James Martineau] [Ph.D University of Texas, 2001]
Knott, Joan A history of the libraries of Newcastle upon Tyne to 1900 (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne unpublished thesis, 1975)
Lettis, Theodore P. From sacred text to religious text: an intellectual history of the impact of New Testament lower criticism on dogma as a contribution to the English enlightenment and the Victorian crisis of faith 1690-1854 (University of Edinburgh, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1995)
McCabe, Joseph Life and letters of George Jacob Holyoake 2 volumes (Watts, 1896)
McCormick, Chalmers 'The Restitution of John Campanus' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Harvard)
Royle, E. George Jacob Holyoake and the secularist movement in Britain, 1848-1861 (Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge, 1960)
McLachlan, H. J. The curricula of the Dissenting Academies during the reign of George III (M.A. thesis, University of Manchester, 1930) [this thesis was used by H. MacLachlan (father of H.J.McLachlan) as the basis of his English education under the Test Acts (Manchester, 1931)]
McLachlan, H. J. Socinianism in seventeenth-century England D. Phil thesis, University Oxford [published by Oxford University Press, 1951]
Nolan, John Henry Monteith Antitrinitarianism in England from Biddle to the close of the seventeenth century [B. Litt. dissertation. ?University of Oxford - copy in HMCO Library]
• Peliard-Lianos, Françoise 'Francis Newman témoir de la crise de la foi chez les Victoriens' [Dr. of University, Université Jean Moulin' Lyon III, Faculté des Langues, 2000]
Petty, Daniel Wade Anabaptism and the Edwardian Reformation (Ph.D dissertation, Texas Christian University, Abiline, 1988)
Procter, G. Marian The Reverend William Turner and the early years of the Hanover Square Sunday School (Dissertation, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1987)
Reid, David A. Science and pedagogy in the Dissenting Academies of enlightenment Britain [Ph. D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999]
Richey, Russell E. The origins of English Unitarianism (Princetown University, unpublished dissertation, 1970; Ann Arbor, University Microfilms)
Rowell, D.G. Death and the future life in the religious thought of nineteenth century England (Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge, 1968)
Schulman, Jacob Frank The Anti-Trinitarian struggle for equality 1813-1844 [D. Phil., University of Oxford 1994]
Seed, John The role of Unitarianism in the formation of liberal culture, 1755-1851: a social history University of Hull, unpublished Ph. D thesis, 1981)
Sellars Ian University of Oxford B. Litt.)
Sellars, Ian Liverpool nonconformity: 1786-1914 (Ph.D, Keele University, 1969)>
Smith, Leonard John Trevor and the Labour Church movement (Huddersfield Polytechnic, M.A.thesis, 1986)
Stange, Douglas Charles British Unitarians and the crisis of American slavery 1833-1865 [D. Phil. University of Oxford, 1981]
Summers, D. F. The Labour Church and allied movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Edinburgh University, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1958)
• Thesis entitled 'Gender and the aristocracy of dissent: A comparative study of the beliefs, status and roles of women in Quaker and Unitarian Communities, 1770-1830 with particular reference to Yorkshire.' [2000-2000] - York University Borthwick Institute ref. Thesis/324
• Tindall, Philip Noble ‘The Manchester Socinian Controversy, its background and sequel’ (M. Litt dissertation, Newcastle University, 1979)
Walker, R. E. ‘The English General Baptists 1640-1660’ (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester, 1968)
Watts, Ruth E. The Unitarian contribution to the development of female education in the nineteenth century (University of Leicester, unpublished M.A. dissertation, 1979)
Watts, Ruth E. The Unitarian contribution to education in England from the late eighteenth century to 1853 (University of Leicester, Ph.D. thesis, 1987)
Wicker, Colin Herbert Three Scottish Unitarians: a study in historical deviance (International Institute for Advanced Studies, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1986)
Thomas Aikenhead 1678-1697), William Christie (1748-1823), and Henry Williamson (1839-1925)
Wykes, David L. 'Religious Dissent and the trade and industry of Leicester, 1660-1720' (unpublished Ph. D thesis, University of Leicester, 1987)
Ireland
Allen, Robert The principle of Non-subscriptionThe Queen’s University of Belfast, unpublished Ph.D. thesis)
Brooke, P. E. C Controversies in Ulster Presbyterianism 1790-1836 (University of Cambridge, unpublished Ph.D. thesis,1981
Brown, A. W. Godfrey Irish Presbyterian theology in the early eighteenth century (The Queen’s University of Belfast, unpublished Ph.D. thesis)
Carpenter. John William Thomas Emlyn: 'Humble Inquirer' (unpublished M. Phil thesis University of Dublin Trinity College, 1992)
Kilroy, Phil Protestant dissent and controversy, 1660-1711 (unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Trinity College, Dublin, 1992) [deals with early history of Wood Street congregation]
McMillan, William The subscription controversy in Irish Presbyterianism from the plantation of Ulster to the present day with reference to the political implications in the late eighteenth century 2 volumes (University of Manchester, unpublished M.A. thesis, 1959)
Nelson, John [The Belfast Society] (unpublished Ph. D thesis Queen’s University, Belfast
Commonwealth
Facer, Wayne 30A West Tamaki Road, St. Heliers, Auckland in 1998 was hoping to write a thesis about Unitarianism in New Zealand [had telephone conversation with him 16 September 1998]
Heller-Wagner, Eric , "The Unitarians of South Africa: A Socio-Historical Study" (unpublished Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, University of Stellenbosch, 1995).
Morrison-Reed, Mark D.???????????????(D.Min. dissertation Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago
Scott, Dorothy [Unpublished thesis on Melbourne Unitarian Church in the 1880s] (University of Melbourne, 1976)
Smith, F. B. Religion and free thought in Melbourne, 1870-1890 (M.A. thesis, University of Melbourne, 1960)
Sydney Unitarian Church (University of Sydney MA thesis) [referred to by Dr Neville Buch, Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor, Griffith University in an e-mail to AMH November 1997]
INDIVIDUALS
Joanna Baillie
Christine Amanda ‘Convictions of the heart: Religion, morality, and reform in the works of Joanna Baillie, Anne Bronte, and Adelaide Procter’ (PhD University Of California, Davis)
Joseph Barker
[Wright, Sarah Ann of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford was writing a Ph.D. thesis on Joseph Barker in 1977]
John Biddlle
Barna Jozsef ‘John Biddle’s reception in seventeenth-century Transylvania. Additions to the history of the connections between English and Hungarian Unitarians [MA thesis, University of Seged, Hungary, 2000’
Stopford Augustus Brooke
Standley, Fred Lloyd 'Stopford Augustus Brooke: studies toward a biography' (Dissertation, Northwestern University, 19640 [Dissertation Abstracts 64-12340]
R. J. Campbell
David, Jacqueline ‘A spiritual pilgrtimage: a biographical study of R. J. Campbell’ [Ph.D thesis, University of Durham, 1991]
James Estlin Carpenter
Deacon, Jane Anne ‘Joseph Estlin Carpenter - an intellectual biography’ M.A thesis University of Lancaster, 1977
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ramsey, Todd Keith ‘The Unitarian poetics of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’ PhD , University Of Alabama, 2001]
Moncure Conway
d’Entremont, John Moncure Conway: the American years, 1832-1907Ph.D. thesis, John Hopkins University, ?1982)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frothingham, R. The Unitarianism of SamuelTaylor Coleridge (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University, 1964)
Charles Dickens
Ailing, Helen Jane 'Dickens Unitarian Theology' (University of Minnesota dissertation, 1996) [Dissertation Abstracts International 1996 57(4) 1627-A DA962 7801]
Walder, Denis Dickens and religion: a preliminary survey’ (Edinburgh University, unpublished M.Litt. thesis, 1969) pp.104-63
T. S. Eliot
Wells, Clarke Dewey [T. S. Eliot D.Min. dissertation Meadville/Lombard Theological School Chicago, 1974)
Thomas Firmin
Stephenson, H. W. Thomas Firmin FRS (1632-1697) (Oxford University, unpublished D.Phil. thesis, 1949)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Boggs, W. Arthur Reflections of Unitarianism in Mrs. Gaskell’s Novels’ (University of California Berkley, unpublished dissertation)
Cartwright, John Simpson Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley: the creative artist’s interpretation of a working class world (University of London, unpublished dissertation, 1980)
Gallagher, Clare Mary 'Elizabeth Gaskell: the social novels' (MA Liverpool 1963)
Glendinning, Sheran Elizabeth Christian ideology and 'Mary Barton', influencres of Unitarianism (unpublished B.A.(Hons) dissertation) [copy at Cross St. Chapel]
Karminsky, Anne Sarah 'Writers in Manchester 1831-1854' (M. Litt., CAmbridge, 1955)
Lancaster, Joseph Torry 'Mrs. Gaskell with special reference to the social reform novels 1830-1850 (M. Litt. Cambridge, 1927)
Wheeler, Michael was writing a Ph. D thesis at University College, London on the early novels of Elizabeth Gaskell in 1972
John Gordon
Leese, R. The impact of Methodism on Black Country society (Manchester University Ph.D thesis, 1972) [for John Gordon see pp.150-197]
Greg Family
Corr, John Bernatd 'The political economy of William Rathbone Greg' (Ph.D, Kent State University, 1971 [Dissertation Abstracts International 32 6332A]
Rose, Mary B. The Gregs of Styal: the emergence and development of a family business (University of Manchester, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1977)
Lazenby, Walter Cecil 'The social and economic history of Styal 1750-1850' (MA, Manchester, 1949)
Richard Holt Hutton
Tener Robert H. was writing a doctoral dissertation on Richard Holt Hutton at Birkbeck College, London in 1958
Alexander Ireland 1810-1895 Edinburgh and Manchester Unitarian and friend of Emerson
Roberts, David [Alexander Ireland] (Ph.D thesis, University Sheffield, ? 1985]
John Jebb
Pearl, Kenneth Lawrence John Jebb, a British radical in the age of the American Revolution (Ph.D dissertation City University of New York, 1998)
Harriet Martineau
Byford, Diana 'Harriet Martineau and didactic fiction 1830-1840' (unpublished M. A. thesis, University of Leicester, 1971)
Kawaguchi, Naomi Proposing a new approach to Harriet Martineau (1802-1876): feminist biography [M. A. dissertation, University of Essex, 1989 copy in HMCO Library]
James Martineau
Brouwer, Frederick Earle James Martineau: a study of an ethical position based upon motives [Ph.D., Yale Graduate School, 1960 copy in HMCO Library]
Keller, Carol ‘Pundit and Pulpit: Teaching the Victorians -- Harriet and James Martineau’, (December 2001) [online in PDF format at http://www.accd.edu/sac/history/keller/profinfo.htm; eventually will be available at UMI ProQuest DigitalDissertations]
Knost, Jan Vickery James Martineau as a devotional writer: a psychological and existential study [B. D. dissertation - where?-, 1958 copy in HMCO Library]
Schulman, Jacob Frank Martineau’s understanding of worship in the context of his theology [M. Litt., University of Oxford, 2000]
Waller, Ralph ‘James Martineau: his emergence as a thrologian, his christology and his doctrine of the church, with some unpublished papers’ (Ph.D thesis University of London, 1986)
Iolo Morganwg
Davis, Elwyn [unpublished Ph. D. thesis on Iolo Morganwg presumably University of Wales]
Jerom Murch
Koloczkowski, Alexandra E. Sir Jerom Murch: case study of a unitarian liberal and his import in the Bath community, 1833-95 Bath, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1995)
Francis William Newman
Petiard-Lianos, Françoise Francis Newman, témoin de la crise de la foi chez les Victorians [Université Jean Moulin, Lyon III, Faculté de langues, 2000 copy in HMCO Library]
Schellenberg, A. Meg [now Meg Richardson] Prize the doubt: the life and work of Francis William Newman [Ph. D., University of Durham, 1994]
Thomas Perceval Manchester Unitarian and medical practitioner
Hope, Royden Birtles 'Dr. Thomas Perceval, a medical pioneer and social reformer, 1740-1804' (MA, Manchester, 1947)
Richard Price
Edwards, Ifon Morris The Moral and Religious Philosophy of Dr Richard
Price (University of London, unpublished thesis, c 1940).
Jenkins, B. The aims and work of Richard Price 1723-1791(University of Wales, unpublished M.A. thesis, 1927)
Norris, B.A. The religious thought of Richard Price 1723-1791 (University of Edinburgh, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1950)
Parry B. M. The political importance of Dr. Price (University of Liverpool, unpublished MA thesis, 1934)
Price, Eric ShirvellA dissertation comprising a critical commentary and analyses of the system of intentional ethics by Richard Price (University of Bristol, unpublished MA thesis, 1921)
Ratilovich, D.
Views concerning the epistemology of morals held by some of the British moralists of the eighteenth century ... with special reference to the anti-empirical views of Richard Price and Thomas Reid (University of Oxford, unpublished D.Phil. thesis, 1940)
Thomas, M. The ethical philosophy of Richard Price (University of Wales, unpublished MA thesis, 1921)
Thomas, R. ????????????????????? (University of London, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1928)
Joseph Priestley
Carden, William Raymond, Jr. 'The political and historical ideas of Jospeh Priestley' (Dissertation, Emory University, 1966)
Chapin, Lloyd W. Jr. The theology of Joseph Priestley: a study in eighteenth century apologetics (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1967)
Chapin, Lloyd Walter 'The theology of Joseph Priestley: a study in eighteenth century apologetics' (Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1970)
Howard, Gregory Wyman ‘Freedom, determination and liberal religion: the thought of Joseph Priestley’ [thesis, Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago 1986]
Lesser, Charles Hubert Joseph Priestley (1733-1804): the mind of a materialist: anintellectual biography (thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974) [Dissertation Abstracts 75-10214
McEvoy, John G.Joseph Priestley: philosopher, scientist and divine (University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. thesis, 1975)
Rhodes, C. J. Joseph Priestley LL.D., F.R.S. and his influence on eighteenth century education (University of Manchester, unpublished M.Ed. thesis, 1932)
Rice, Richard AdamsJoseph Priestley’s materialist theory of cognition: its influence and historical significance (Ph.D. thesis, Brandeis University, 1969) [Dissertation Abstracts 69-16315]
Walker, W. C. The beginnings of the scientific career of Joseph Priestley [etc.](University of London, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1937)
Saunders, Alan [Doctoral dissertation on Joseph Priestley Australian National University
Rathbone Family
Marriner, Sheila 'Business in two continents 1845-1873: a study in entrepreneurial behaviour, with special reference to the Liverpool house of Rathbone Brothers and Company' (Ph.D, Liverpool, 1958)
William Richards
Oddy, John Arthur ‘The Reverend William Richards (1749-1818) and his friends: a study of ideas and relationships’ [M. Phil dissertation, University of Nottingham
William Roscoe
Graham, Jenny Elizabeth 'The political ideas and activities of William Roscoe, 1787-1801' (MA, Liverpool, 1970)
Charles Prestwich Scott 184661932 Unitarian and editor of The Manchester Guardian
McKeown, Michael Dennis 'The principle and politics of the "Manchester Guardian" under C.P.Scott to 1914' (Ph. , Case Western Reserve University, 1972) [Disertation Abstracts International 33 5098A]
William Smith MP
Aspinwall, Bernard wrote a Manchester M.A. thesis on William Smith c. 1960
Catherine Helen Spence
Eade, Susan MargaretA study of Catherine Helen Spence, 1825-1910 (unpublished M.A. thesis, Australian National University
John Hurford Stone
(Australian National University, M.A. thesis, 1971)
Sir Henry Tate
Chalmin, Philippe The making of a sugar giant: Tate and Lyle, 1859-1959 (Chur, Switzerland, 1990) ["a French doctoral thesis tat concentratess solely on the commercial and technical history of that spectacular enterprise; Sir Henry Tate... does not emerge as a person, nor has he had any serious biographical attention" RK Webb 'Q&A' p.112n65]]
Pishey Thompson
Hughes, Lloyd The American diary and letters of Pishey Thompson 1 July 1843 to 6 April 1844 (MA thesis, Nottingham University School of American Studies, 1973)
John Trevor
Smith, Leonard John Trevor and the Labour Church movement [M.A. thesis, Huddersfield Polytechnic, 1985]
William Turner
Bowery, Margaret M. William Turners's contribution to educational developments in Newcastle upon Tyne (1782-1841 MA Thesis Newcastle University, 1980)
Benjamin Vaughani
Murray, Craif Compton 'Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835): the life of an Anglo-American intellectual' (Dissertation, Columbia University, 1989) [Dissertation Abstracts 90-20676]
Henry Wansey 1751-1827 antiquarian and traveller, Bath Unitarian
[Jeremy, David J. of 10 Penystone Lane, Tupsley, Hereford was writing a Bristol M.A. thesis about Wansey in 1964]
Wellbeloved, Charles
Schulman, Jacob Frank Charles Wellbeloved: a study of a Dissenting minister [B.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1981]
White, José Mana Blanco
Baltasar fra Molinero Evidenica contra el Catolicismo de José Maria Blanco White [Memoria de Licenciatura - copy in HMCO Library]
Philip Henry Wicksteed
Steedman, Ian P.H.Wicksteed’s Jevonian critique of Marx [first draft of University of Manchester these, January 1987 in HMCO Library
Willoughby family
Willoughby-Higson, Philip John 'A neglected revolution family: the Lancashire Lords Willoughby of Patrham and their association with Protestant dissent 1640-1765 (Ph.D, Liverpool, 1970)
Elhanan Winchester
McGehee, Charles White [unpublished thesis on Elhanan Winchester] (Crane Theological School Tufts University. 1959)
Sweeny, Joseph R. Elhanan Winchester: and the Universal Baptists (doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1969 Ann Arbor, University Microfilms)