1886: Birth
Arthur Walkington Pink was born to a corn-merchant's family in Nottingham on 1 April 1886. His father was a devout non-conformist, probably a Congregationalist.
Read moreMuch of the Act was mundane and obvious - a single coinage, common taxes and the same weights and measures. More importantly, there was to be one Parliament and one monarch. And perhaps most significantly of all, at least as far as this readership is concerned, there would be one faith - described repeatedly in the Act as ‘the True Protestant Religion’.