Bowdler, John (1746–1823), Church of England layman and religious writer, was born at Bath, Somerset, on 18 March 1746, the eldest son of Thomas Bowdler (bap. 1719, d. 1785) and Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, née Cotton (d. 1797), religious writer. He was given a strict Anglican religious upbringing by his mother, and at the age of eight was sent to the school kept by ...
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Bowdler, John (1746–1823), Church of England layman and religious writer
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Downes, Theophilus (1657/8–1726), nonjuror and author
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Downes, Theophilus (1657/8–1726), nonjuror and author, was born at Purslow, Shropshire, between March 1657 and March 1658, the son of John and Knightley Downes. He became a commoner of Balliol College, Oxford, in March 1673, graduating BA on 17 October 1676 and MA on 10 July 1679. He was elected a fellow of ...
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Law, William (1686–1761), devotional writer and nonjuror
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Law, William (1686–1761), devotional writer and nonjuror, was born in the village of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, near Stamford, Lincolnshire, and baptized on 3 February 1687 in the parish church, All Saints'. He was the fifth among the eleven children of Thomas Law (...
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Underhill, Evelyn Maud Bosworth (1875–1941)
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Underhill [married name Stuart Moore], Evelyn Maud Bosworth (1875–1941), religious writer and spiritual director
Dana Greene
Underhill [married name Stuart Moore], Evelyn Maud Bosworth (1875–1941), religious writer and spiritual director, was born on 6 December 1875 at Graisley Hill, 183 Penn Road, Wolverhampton, the only child of Sir Arthur Underhill (1850–1939), barrister and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn...
