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<div>'''Rev. William James Shrewsbury''' (1795-1866) was a British [[Methodism|Methodist]] minister, missionary, opponent of [[slavery]] and [[ecumenist]] who worked in the [[West Indies]] and [[South Africa]].<br />
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He was born on 15 February 1795. In 1816, he was sent as a missionary to [[Tortola]], the largest and most populated of the [[British Virgin Islands]]. He worked there for two years and then transferred to [[Grenada]], moving from there, in 1820, to [[Barbados]]. He was expelled from Barbados as a result of religious persecution of the missions linked to [[Bussa's Rebellion]], and following a riot in which the Methodist church in Barbados (built on land donated by [[Sarah Ann Gill]]) was destroyed. <ref name=Beckles>{{cite book|last1=Beckles|first1=Hilary McD|title=A history of Barbados : from Amerindian settlement to Caribbean single market|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge [England]|isbn=978-0-521-67849-0|pages=118|edition=2nd ed.|accessdate=28 May 2015}}</ref> A debate led by [[Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet|Fowell Buxton]] MP was conducted in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] on 23 June 1825, concluding with a resolution that members of the House:<br />
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“declare, that they view with the utmost indignation that scandalous and daring violation of the law; and having seen with great satisfaction the instructions which have been sent out by his majesty's Secretary of State to the governor of Barbadoes, to prevent a recurrence of similar outrages, they humbly assure his Majesty ([[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]]) of their readiness to concur in every measure which his Majesty may deem necessary for securing ample protection and religious toleration to all his Majesty's subjects in that part of his Majesty's dominions." <ref>http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1825/jun/23/expulsion-of-mr-shrewsbury-the</ref><br />
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He later served as a missionary among the [[Xhosa people|Xhosa]] people in South Africa.<ref>http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=17571</ref><br />
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