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Thomas Kelly (hymn-writer)
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'''Thomas Kelly''' (1769–1855) was an Irish evangelical, known as a [[Church of Ireland]] cleric to 1803, hymn writer and founder of the Kellyites.
==Life==
He was the son of [[Thomas Kelly (politician, born 1723)|Thomas Kelly]] (1723–1809), born at Kellyville, [[Queen's County]], on 13 July 1769. He entered [[Trinity College, Dublin]] in 1785, graduating B.A. in 1789. He was admitted to London's [[Middle Temple]] in 1786.<ref name="ODNB"></ref>
In Dublin, Kelly was influenced by [[John Walker (1769–1833)]], also a Trinity College undergraduate. Giving up on a legal career, he was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1792; Walker was ordained too, in 1793.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Walker"></ref> [[Rowland Hill (preacher)|Rowland Hill]] visited Dublin in 1793, and Kelly began to preach on [[grace in Christianity|grace]] in line with Hill's views. With others, he gave the Sunday afternoon sermons at [[St. Luke's Church, Dublin]] in early 1794. They provoked [[Robert Fowler (archbishop)|Robert Fowler]], the Church of Ireland archibishop, who inhibited them on doctrinal grounds.<ref name="ODNB"/>
Kelly reacted first by preaching in unconsecrated Dublin locations: one on Plunket Street, another the Bethesda Chapel.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> He went on to [[Athy]]. In 1795 he married, and moved out to [[Blackrock]], where he built himself a [[chapel of ease]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
With allies, Kelly spread his evangelical views widely in Ireland. In 1802 he founded the religious connexion that became known as the Kellyites, with half a dozen congregations, recruiting some ministers from Scotland, where the same year the seminary run by the Haldane brothers, [[Robert Haldane|Robert]] and [[James Haldane|James Alexander]], moved from Glasgow to Edinburgh and expanded.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 1803 he broke with the Church of Ireland.<ref name="ODNB"/> The same year, also, Walker had gathered a group living as the Church of God, and he was expelled as fellow of Trinity College, Dublin in 1804.<ref name="Walker"/>
Kelly died in Dublin on 14 May 1855, having acted as minister to his connexion in Athy and Dublin for half a century. After that it dropped away.<ref name="ODNB"/>
==Notes==
[[Category:1769 births]]
[[Category:1855 deaths]]
[[Category:Church of Ireland clergy]]
[[Category:Irish evangelicals]]
==Life==
He was the son of [[Thomas Kelly (politician, born 1723)|Thomas Kelly]] (1723–1809), born at Kellyville, [[Queen's County]], on 13 July 1769. He entered [[Trinity College, Dublin]] in 1785, graduating B.A. in 1789. He was admitted to London's [[Middle Temple]] in 1786.<ref name="ODNB"></ref>
In Dublin, Kelly was influenced by [[John Walker (1769–1833)]], also a Trinity College undergraduate. Giving up on a legal career, he was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1792; Walker was ordained too, in 1793.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Walker"></ref> [[Rowland Hill (preacher)|Rowland Hill]] visited Dublin in 1793, and Kelly began to preach on [[grace in Christianity|grace]] in line with Hill's views. With others, he gave the Sunday afternoon sermons at [[St. Luke's Church, Dublin]] in early 1794. They provoked [[Robert Fowler (archbishop)|Robert Fowler]], the Church of Ireland archibishop, who inhibited them on doctrinal grounds.<ref name="ODNB"/>
Kelly reacted first by preaching in unconsecrated Dublin locations: one on Plunket Street, another the Bethesda Chapel.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> He went on to [[Athy]]. In 1795 he married, and moved out to [[Blackrock]], where he built himself a [[chapel of ease]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
With allies, Kelly spread his evangelical views widely in Ireland. In 1802 he founded the religious connexion that became known as the Kellyites, with half a dozen congregations, recruiting some ministers from Scotland, where the same year the seminary run by the Haldane brothers, [[Robert Haldane|Robert]] and [[James Haldane|James Alexander]], moved from Glasgow to Edinburgh and expanded.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 1803 he broke with the Church of Ireland.<ref name="ODNB"/> The same year, also, Walker had gathered a group living as the Church of God, and he was expelled as fellow of Trinity College, Dublin in 1804.<ref name="Walker"/>
Kelly died in Dublin on 14 May 1855, having acted as minister to his connexion in Athy and Dublin for half a century. After that it dropped away.<ref name="ODNB"/>
==Notes==
[[Category:1769 births]]
[[Category:1855 deaths]]
[[Category:Church of Ireland clergy]]
[[Category:Irish evangelicals]]
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