About Andrew Mearns
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Andrew Mearns (1837–1905) was a Scottish Congregational minister, now best known as the prime mover behind the sensational anonymous 1883 pamphlet The Bitter Cry of Outcast London. While scholarly debate has concluded that the author was the journalist William Carnall Preston, it has always been clear that the basis for the pamphlet's claims about poverty in London rested on research commissioned by Mearns.
