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In this bibliographic study any historical sketch of the Brethren must of necessity be very short, and yet without it many would be somewhat at sea. One of the most concise and comprehensive histories is that of Henry Allan Ironside, A Historical Sketch of the Brethren Movement (Grand Rapids, 1942, 219pp.). He lists seven men as having been considered the real founders of the movement in Dublin, Ireland, and Plymouth, England. These men are Edward Cronin, Edward Wilson, H. Hutchinson, William Stokes, J. Parnell (afterward the second Lord Congleton, J.G. Bellett, and J.N. Darby.
Cronin, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is said to have been the first to take definite action along Brethren lines. After being denied the fellowship of the Lord's table at the Independent Chapel on York Street, unless he joined them formally, if he intended to remain in Dublin, he and Mr. Edward Wilson met in one of the latter's rooms privately for prayer and the breaking of bread until the latter went to England.
Two of Mr. Cronin's cousins, the Misses Drury, and a Mr. Tims, are also mentioned as having met with him in this manner. In 1827 Mr. Bellett and J.N. Darby became identified with this meeting. In 1830 Wigram started an assembly at Plymouth, England, and from this group the generic name has come to be attached to the movement, even though most of the adherents deplore the use of it. By 1845 this Plymouth assembly had grown to 1200.
* Gilmore, William, These Seventy Years, Kilmarnock, 1954, 72 pp., illus., ports.
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