History of the Carlile family

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
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Benjamin Wilson & Co., of Southwark. He and Mrs. Carlile
were in Metz at the time of its capitulation during the Franco-
Prussian war, having gone to the continent on business. He
subsequently joined his father in the firm of Carlile, Pittman
& Co., warehousemen, of Bow Lane, Cheapside, until the
business was sold, in the year 1879, to the old city house,
Foster, Porter & Co. He decided to take Holy Orders, and
entered as a student at the London College of Divinity,
Highbury. He was ordained by the Bishop of London, Deacon,
1880, Priest, 1 88 1, and became Curate of St. Mary Abbot's,
Kensington, 1880-2, then Rector of Netteswell, Essex, 1 890-1,
Rector of St. Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London, 1891, Prebendary
of Newington in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1906. In 1882 he
founded the " Church Army," the object of which was to establish
in needy parishes a mission band to carry on aggressive work
among lapsed adults. Out of this grew an institute for the
training of evangelists and sisters, who should give their whole
time to mission work. Various other organisations have also
arisen, which are fully described in a book called Wilson Carlile