Protestant nonconformity was one of the most significant influences in nineteenth-century Britain, and has rightly received considerable attention from historians. At both local and national level much of its influence was channelled through, and inspired by, the activities and utterances of the professional minister. The names of the most successful were often household words in the Victorian period, and most have attracted a biographer. Yet neither the experiences nor the careers of these pulpit princes were necessarily those of the typical minister - almost nine thousand of them in 1900 - who served in the chapels of the main dissenting denominations. Using simple sampling and statistical techniques, Kenneth D. Brown sets out to recreate the lives, both private and professional, of this less celebrated but faithful and more representative body of men, rescuing them from the anonymity of the past.
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"Brown has written a book that will reward both the statistician and the generalist. He has filled many of the gaps in our understanding of the social texture of the lives of Nonconformist ministers during a century of great change. He has done that with clarity and grace, and he leaves his reader with a strong sense of the contributions made by those men of obscure destinies and homely joys."--American Historical Review
"The statistical material Brown has compiled is very valuable and will ensure that the book continues to be widely used for many years to come."--Journal of Modern History
"Brown has written a straightforward social history of the Nonconformist ministry in the form of a truly model collective biography"--Journal of British Studies
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