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William Howie Wylie

1833–91

Baptist minister and journalist. Educated at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Subeditor, Ayr Advertiser, 1847–50. Editor, Nottingham Journal, 1850–52. Subeditor, Liverpool Courier, 1852–3; Glasgow Commonwealth, 1854–5. In 1855, moved to Edinburgh, where he began studying for the ministry; transferred to Regent’s Park College, London, in 1859. Appointed Baptist minister, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, 1860; Accrington, Lancashire, 1865. Subeditor, Christian World, 1870–7. Founder and editor, Glasgow Christian Leader, 1882–91.

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ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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