Charles Clement Coe

Charles Clement Coe (1830-1921) was an English Unitarian minister and writer.[1]

Coe was born in King's Lynn and educated at Manchester College, Oxford. He was President of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862-1863) and was Minister of the Unitarian Great Meeting chapel in Bond Street, Leicester.[2] His was minister at Bank Street Unitarian Chapel in Bolton, Lancashire, from 1874 to 1895, when he moved to Bournemouth.[3]

It was while at Bolton that Coe wrote a large volume, Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution (1895). He defended evolution but rejected natural selection.[2][4] The biologist J. Arthur Thomson gave the book a positive review, commenting that it is a very interesting critique of natural selection written with much skill.[5]

Publications

Notes
  1. "Obituaries of Unitarian Ministers". Unitarian Historical Society.
  2. "Rev Charles Clement Coe". Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 2015-10-01.
  3. Bank Street Chapel (1896). Bank Street Chapel, Bolton, Bi-centenary Commemoration 1696-1896 (PDF). Philip Green (London); H. Rawson & Co. (Manchester). p. 141.
  4. F. C. S. Schiller. (1986). Nature Versus Natural Selection: an Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe. The Philosophical Review. Vol. 5, No. 4. p. 437.
  5. J. Arthur Thomson. (1896). Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe. International Journal of Ethics. Vol. 7, No. 1. p. 132.


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