8-595: Ulster Female Penitentiary and Laundry or Edgar Home , was a Mother and Baby home in Brunswick Street, Belfast. It evolved out of an institution founded in 1816. It was initially non-denominational. It was greatly expanded and developed when it came under Presbyterian control and Rev. John Edgar and the new home was opened in November 1839. Other denominations had their similar institutions in Belfast, such as
16-681: A letter in the Belfast Telegraph advocating temperance . He formed the Ulster Temperance Movement. In 1834, Edgar told a parliamentary committee inquiring into the causes and consequences of drunkenness in the United Kingdom that there were 550 "dram shops" in Belfast and 1,700 shops selling intoxicants in Dublin as well as numerous illicit distillers "even in the most civilised districts of Ulster". He
24-569: The Catholic Good Shepherd Home, Ballynafeigh (established in 1867), and the Anglican Ulster Magdalene Asylum , Donegall Pass, also established in 1839. The inmates who were described as 'Penitent Women', 'Fallen Women' or 'Victims of Seduction', were expected to stay two years. Religious and Vocational education was provided. It was named Edgar Home , in 1892 after Dr. Edgar. A new building
32-621: The Irish famine. The church was accused of proselytizing during the famine period. In the May Street Presbyterian Church he said, "I hope soon to have an opportunity of directing public attention to spiritual famine in Connaught, but our effort now is to save the perishing body ... Our brother is starving, and, till we have satisfied his hunger, we have no time to inquire whether he is Protestant or Romanist". Edgar
40-756: The Presbyterian Church of Ireland for 1842–3, and obtained LL.D. of New York in 1860. Edgar died aged 68 on 26 August 1866, in Cremore, Rathgar , Dublin, where he had gone to get medical treatment. He was survived by his wife Susanna, and was buried in Balmoral Cemetery , Belfast. Edgar is known as the origin of the Temperance Movement in Ireland because he poured alcohol out his window in 1829. On 14 August 1829 he wrote
48-700: The Presbyterian Home Mission during the Famine in 1847. He was born near Ballynahinch on 13 June 1798, the eldest son of Samuel Edgar (1766-1826) and Elizabeth McKee (1771-1839). He attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution where he excelled as a student, and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian church in 1820. He became D.D. of Hamilton College, USA in 1836, was elected moderator of
56-678: Was also the founder of the Ulster Female Penitentiary in 1839 which was a residential home for prostitutes; and was instrumental in getting the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute set up in Belfast. The meeting which led to the establishment of the Presbyterian Orphan Society was held in 1866 in his drawing room. Edgar was also involved in the relief effort by the presbyterian church in Connaught during
64-537: Was built and opened in 1902 in the grounds of Whitehall House, Ormeau Road, Belfast, which is now Haypark Residential Home. The home closed in 1926. John Edgar (minister) John Edgar (13 June 1798 – 26 August 1866) was a minister, professor of theology, moderator of the Secession Synod in 1828 and moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland in 1842. He was Honorary Secretary to
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