Alexander Garden (clergyman)
- Alexander Garden (clergyman)
Rev Alexander Garden (c. 1685-1756) was a clergyman born in Scotland, and educated at the University of Aberdeen. In 1719 he went to South Carolina as the Bishop of London's Commissary, and became rector of the St. Philip's Church in Charleston. He was a prominent figure in the early history of Charleston, known then as Charles Town.
As well as supervising other clergymen in the area he took an interest in the Charleston Free School, and established the so-called "Negro School" which was supported by the Church of England's Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. In the spring of 1754 he retired and went to live in England, but soon went back to the warmer climate of South Carolina and died there in 1756.
References
* [http://books.google.com William Buell Sprague, "Annals of the American Episcopal Pulpit" (1859)]
External links
* [http://smith2.sewanee.edu/courses/391/DocsEarlySouth/1740-AlexanderGarden.html Sermon by Garden, 1740]
* [http://www.stphilipschurchsc.org/spce/history St. Philip's Church history]
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