excommunicated for denying the Divinity of Christ Benjamin Wills Newton – early leader of the assembly in Plymouth; branded as a heretic by John Darby and his followers John Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton – missionary to Mesopotamia G. H. Pember – English theologian who lived in the 19th century; wrote the book Earth's Earliest Ages Joseph M. Scriven – writer of the words to the hymn "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" Hudson Taylor – founder of the China Inland Mission Samuel Prideaux Tregelles – English biblical scholar and theologian William Edwy Vine – author of Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words and numerous commentaries George Wigram – wrote a Greek and English Concordance to the New Testament and The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament Orde Wingate – British commando See also Assemblies Jehovah Shammah Exclusive Brethren Gospel Hall Brethren or Gospel Hall Assemblies Indian Brethren Kerala Brethren Assembly The Local Church (affiliation) Needed Truth Brethren Open Brethren Plymouth Brethren Christian Church Notes and references Bibliography Adams, Norman (1972) Goodbye, Beloved Brethren. Impulse Publications Inc. Carroll, H. K. (1912) Religious Forces in the United States. New York Coad, F. Roy (2001) A History of the Brethren Movement: Its Origins, Its Worldwide Development and Its Significance for the Present Day. Regent College Publishing Dorman, W. H. (1866) The Close of Twenty-eight Years of Association with J. N. Darby. London: Houlston & Wright. Ph.D. Thesis Ironside, H. A. (1985) Historical Sketch of the Brethren Movement Loizeaux Brothers , 1st edition 1942. Kelly, William (1883) Response by William Kelly to J. S. Teulon's Plymouth Brethren Free download site Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1885). "Plymouth Brethren", Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Lindsay, Thomas Martin & Grieve, Alexander James (1911). "Plymouth Brethren", Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Pickering, Henry (1918) Chief Men Among the Brethren. London: Pickering & Inglis, 1918; Loizeaux Brothers, Inc. Neptune, NJ, 1996, Smith, Natan Dylan (1996) Roots, Renewal and the Brethren. Hope Publishing House Strauch, Alexander (1995) Biblical Eldership: an Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership. Lewis & Roth Publishers Stott, Rebecca (2017) In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, A Father, A Cult. Winner of the 2017 Costa Biography Prize. London: Fourth Estate. Stunt, Timothy C. F. (2000) From Awakening to Secession: radical evangelicals in Switzerland and Britain, 1815–35. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark