Talk:Reginald Sorensen, Baron Sorensen

He didn't want to be conscripted

 * The Walthamstow church founded by Spears gained notoriety in 1917, where a Pioneer Preacher, Reginald Sorensen (1891-1972), was then in lay charge. He was later a Labour MP, a Unitarian minister and in the 1960s, as Lord Sorensen of Leyton, a government minister in the House of Lords. Sorensen successfully argued before a tribunal, with the support of the B&FUA and Pearson, that he should not be conscripted into the armed forces under the Military Services Act because he was the minister of a recognised church. The majority of Unitarians were solid supporters of the war effort, and Drummond at the Inquirer (where the Sorensen incident was not even mentioned) was a rabid supporter of the war effort.

from A Wide & Fast-Flowing River: Unitarians Together in London and the South East from 1850-2000 by Alan Ruston