Christian minister
English-American minister, physician, and activist (1788–1862)
William Metcalfe was an English-American Bible Christian minister, homeopathic physician, and advocate of vegetarianism, pacifism, temperance, and abolitionism. Ordained by William Cowherd in 1811, he emigrated to the United States with other Bible Christians in 1817 and founded the Philadelphia Bible Christian Church. In 1850, he helped establish the American Vegetarian Society with figures including William Alcott, Sylvester Graham, and Russell Thacher Trall. After Alcott's death in 1859, Metcalfe served as the society's president. He also edited and published reform periodicals.
