James Flawn
James Flawn (1837–1917) was an English restaurateur and tent revivalist who was largely involved with the Salvation Army from 1865 to his death.[1]
Flawn was born 1937, the eldest child surviving past infancy, of Huguenot weavers James Daniel Flawn and Harriet Wilson.[2]
Flawn was orphaned and in poverty at an early age, and took motivation to help the hungry from his childhood. He was a member of the Huguenot "Christian Community".[3]
Flawn was a worker at the Tent Mission before William Booth took over.[1]
He remained with Booth after he became the leader of the East London Special Services Commission. In April 1870 Flawn became manager of the soup kitchen attached to the Peoples Mission Hall.[4]
Flawn owned a restaurant in Pudding Lane where William and Catherine Booth dined regularly, until they moved from Hammersmith to Hackney.[1][4]
In 1871 Flawn, with fifteen-year-old Bramwell Booth who kept the books, administered the five East London outlets of the mission, known as Food-for-the-Million shops.[5]
Flawn headed up the catering for the International Training College for Salvation Army workers at the Congress Hall in Lower Clapton,[1][6] known as "Commissary Flawn".[3]
Flawn is mentioned in William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation, a dramatised biography of Booth,[7] and in Seven dark rivers and the Salvation Army.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d David Malcolm Bennett (December 2003). The General: William Booth. Xulon Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-59467-206-4.
- ^ C. J. S. Flawn. "The Raby and Flawn Families". Huguenot Families (12). The Huguenot Society: 25.
- ^ a b Harold Hill (24 July 2017). Saved to Save and Saved to Serve: Perspectives on Salvation Army History. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-1-5326-0167-5.
- ^ a b John G. Merritt and Allen Satterlee (6 October 2017). Historical Dictionary of The Salvation Army. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-5381-0213-8.
- ^ "The Origin and Early Development of the Salvation Army in Victorian England". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ^ The William Booth Story (PDF). p. 14.
- ^ Janet Benge, Geoff Benge (2002). William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation. Christian Heroes Series - Christian Heroes: Then and Now. YWAM Publishing. p. 199. ISBN 9781576582589.
- ^ John D. Waldron (1990). Seven dark rivers and the Salvation Army: an anthology of Salvationist writings. Salvation Army Literary Dept. p. 202. ISBN 9780892160921.
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