BINNEY, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798; apprenticed to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20; ed. at Wymondley college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New meeting, Bedford 1823; minister of St. James’s st. chapel Newport, Isle of Wight Aug. 1824 to July 1829; ordained 29 Dec. 1824; minister of King’s Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap, London July 1829 to 4 July 1869, where foundation stone of new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went to the United States and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD. Univ. of Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society 1836; author of _Illustrations of the practical power of faith_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1856; _Conscientious clerical nonconformity_ 1839, _5 ed._ 1860; _Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a book for young men_ 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a day for many months, it was translated into several languages; _St. Paul his life and ministry_ 1866; author of three Letters under pseud. of _Fiat Justitia_ 1831, and of _The Great Gorham case_ 1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of _John Search_; author of a pamphlet called _Leicester Gaol by A. Balance, Esq. of the Middle Temple_ 1841. _d._ Doric lodge, High road, Upper Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. _Sermons by T. Binney second series, edited by Henry Allon_ (1875) _xiii-lxvi_, _portrait_; _A memorial of the late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J. Stoughton_ 1874; _T. Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev. E. P. Hood_ 1874; _The lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1865) 146–87; _Contemporary Review xxiii_, 884–97 (1874); _Graphic ix_, 218 (1874), _portrait_. He is introduced as Canon Burney into the novels called _The master of Marton_ 1864 and _Diary of a novelist_ 1870 _by Eliza Tabor_. BINNS, EDWARD. M.D.; author of _The anatomy of sleep or the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will_ 1842; _Prodromus towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual powers of the negro_ 1844. _d._ Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851.