James Flawn (1837–1917) was an English restaurateur and tent revivalist who was largely involved with the Salvation Army from 1865 to his death.[1]
Flawn was born 1937, the eldest child surviving past infancy, of Huguenot weavers James Daniel Flawn and Harriet Wilson.[2]
Flawn was orphaned and in poverty at an early age, and took motivation to help the hungry from his childhood. He was a member of the Huguenot "Christian Community".[3]
In 1871 Flawn, with fifteen-year-old Bramwell Booth who kept the books, administered the five East London outlets of the mission, known as Food-for-the-Million shops.[5]
Flawn is mentioned in William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation, a dramatised biography of Booth,[7] and in Seven dark rivers and the Salvation Army.[8]
^ abcdDavid Malcolm Bennett (December 2003). The General: William Booth. Xulon Press. p. 14. ISBN978-1-59467-206-4.
^C. J. S. Flawn. "The Raby and Flawn Families". Huguenot Families (12). The Huguenot Society: 25.
^ abHarold Hill (24 July 2017). Saved to Save and Saved to Serve: Perspectives on Salvation Army History. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 26–. ISBN978-1-5326-0167-5.
^ abJohn G. Merritt and Allen Satterlee (6 October 2017). Historical Dictionary of The Salvation Army. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 175. ISBN978-1-5381-0213-8.
^Janet Benge, Geoff Benge (2002). William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation. Christian Heroes Series - Christian Heroes: Then and Now. YWAM Publishing. p. 199. ISBN9781576582589.
^John D. Waldron (1990). Seven dark rivers and the Salvation Army: an anthology of Salvationist writings. Salvation Army Literary Dept. p. 202. ISBN9780892160921.
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