Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Benjamin Braidley (1792–1845), was a writer on Sunday schools.Braidley was the son of farmer Benjamin Braidley and was born at Sedgefield, Durham, on 19 August 1792. He was apprenticed to a firm of linen importers in Manchester, and in 1813 first became an active worker in the Bennett Street Sunday schools. In 1815, 1,635 pupils received prizes for regular attendance, and in 1816, 2,020 scholars were on the rolls of the schools. In 1830 Braidley was constable, and in 1831 and 1832 boroughreeve of Manchester. He was also high constable of the hundred of Salford. In 1835 he was twice the unsuccessful candidate in the conservative interest for the parliamentary representation of Manchester. Braidley visited America in 1837, and his diary during his visit shows his great interest in education, the slavery question, and religion, as regarded from an evangelical standpoint. He was a commission agent, and became wealthy; but after the failure of the Northern and Central Bank he lost the greater part of his fortune.. }
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- Benjamin_Braidley abstract "Benjamin Braidley (1792–1845), was a writer on Sunday schools.Braidley was the son of farmer Benjamin Braidley and was born at Sedgefield, Durham, on 19 August 1792. He was apprenticed to a firm of linen importers in Manchester, and in 1813 first became an active worker in the Bennett Street Sunday schools. In 1815, 1,635 pupils received prizes for regular attendance, and in 1816, 2,020 scholars were on the rolls of the schools. In 1830 Braidley was constable, and in 1831 and 1832 boroughreeve of Manchester. He was also high constable of the hundred of Salford. In 1835 he was twice the unsuccessful candidate in the conservative interest for the parliamentary representation of Manchester. Braidley visited America in 1837, and his diary during his visit shows his great interest in education, the slavery question, and religion, as regarded from an evangelical standpoint. He was a commission agent, and became wealthy; but after the failure of the Northern and Central Bank he lost the greater part of his fortune.".