Annet, Peter (1693–1769), religious controversialist, was born in Liverpool but nothing further is known about his background and early life. He worked for a time as a schoolmaster and developed a widely used system of shorthand that received some recognition. Joseph Priestley learned it at school and corresponded with ...
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Annet, Peter (1693–1769), religious controversialist
James A. Herrick
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Barker, Joseph (1806–1875)
Maker: John Cochran
Joseph Barker (1806–1875) by John Cochran, pubd 1880 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Barker, Joseph (1806–1875), Methodist minister and politico-religious controversialist
Eileen Groth Lyon
Barker, Joseph (1806–1875), Methodist minister and politico-religious controversialist, was born on 11 May 1806 at Bramley, near Leeds. His ancestors, originally of Keighley, had been settled in this area for several generations as farmers and manufacturers. The identity of his parents has not been discovered, though it is known that his father was employed in woollen manufacture and served for some time in the militia, and that ...
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Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1841–1915), biblical scholar
Joanna Hawke
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1841–1915), biblical scholar, was born on 18 September 1841 in London, the youngest son of the Revd Charles Cheyne (d. 1867), second master at Christ's Hospital, and his wife, Sarah Anne, whose father was Thomas Hartwell Horne, editor of the popular ...
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Cooper, Thomas (1805–1892), Chartist and religious lecturer
Stephen Roberts
Cooper, Thomas (1805–1892), Chartist and religious lecturer, was born on 20 March 1805 in Leicester, the illegitimate son of a dyer. His mother continued working as a dyer after the early death of Cooper's father, which indicates that the relationship was more than transitory. Living in ...
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Crowe [née Stevens], Catherine Ann (1790–1872), novelist and writer on the supernatural
Joanne Wilkes
Crowe [née Stevens], Catherine Ann (1790–1872), novelist and writer on the supernatural, was born in Borough Green, Kent, on 20 September 1790, the daughter of John Stevens (1758–1833), a farmer and later the proprietor of the popular Regency haunt Stevens's Hotel, and his first wife, ...
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Dodwell, Henry (1706–1784), religious controversialist and barrister
James A. Herrick
Dodwell, Henry (1706–1784), religious controversialist and barrister, was born on 25 November 1706 at Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, the fourth child and eldest son of Henry Dodwell (1641–1711), classical scholar and theologian, and Anne Elliot (d. 1750). Educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, whence he matriculated on 17 April 1723, he proceeded BA on 9 February 1726 and went on to study law. He entered the ...
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Gott, John William (1866–1922), freethought propagandist
Edward Royle
Gott, John William (1866–1922), freethought propagandist, was born at Cowling, Yorkshire, on 17 January 1866, the son of John Gott (b. 1841/2), farm labourer, and his wife, Mary, née Peel (b. 1842/3), house servant, both of Cowling. Little is known of his childhood. By 1891 he was a self-employed tailor and draper in ...
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Hall, John Vine (1774–1860), religious writer
Thomas Hamilton
revised by I. T. Foster
Hall, John Vine (1774–1860), religious writer, was born on 14 March 1774 at Diss. His father had been a man of property, but had lost it. At eleven ‘little Jack’ was apprenticed to a schoolmaster who, he recounted, 'taught me to write the law-hands, and, by way of making the most of me, hired me to the then clerk of the peace...
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Hennell, Charles Christian (1809–1850), religious writer
Ian Sellers
Hennell, Charles Christian (1809–1850), religious writer, was born in Manchester on 30 March 1809, the fifth of a family of eight children of James Hennell (or Hennel) (1782–1816) and his wife, Elizabeth Marshall (1778–1858). His sisters included the writers Mary Hennell, Sara Sophia Hennell...
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Hickeringill, Edmund (bap. 1631, d. 1708)
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Edmund Hickeringill (bap. 1631, d. 1708) by Joseph Nutting, pubd 1707 (after James Jull) © Copyright The British Museum
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Hickeringill, Edmund (bap. 1631, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist
J. L. C. McNulty
Hickeringill, Edmund (bap. 1631, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist, was born in Aberford (near Leeds) where he was baptized on 19 September 1631. His father, Edmund Hickhorngill, the subject of a public proclamation in 1638 for absenting himself from church, was a recusant and the favoured servant of the papist ...
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Ilive, Jacob (bap. 1705, d. 1763), printer and religious polemicist
James A. Herrick
Ilive, Jacob (bap. 1705, d. 1763), printer and religious polemicist, baptized at St Botolph, Aldersgate, London, on 6 July 1705, was the son of Thomas Ilive (d. 1724), a printer of Aldersgate Street, one of those 'said to be highflyers' (...
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu (1895–1986), religious teacher
Mary Lutyens
Krishnamurti, Jiddu (1895–1986), religious teacher, was born on 11 May 1895 at Madanapalle, between Madras and Bangalore, the eighth son of Narianiah, a Telugu-speaking Brahman employed by the British as a rent-collector, and his wife and cousin, Jiddu Sanjeevama (d. 1905). When compulsorily retired, ...
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Morgan, Thomas (1671/2?–1743), theological and medical writer
Peter Harrison
Morgan, Thomas (1671/2?–1743), theological and medical writer, was of Welsh origin and is said to have been 'a poor lad in a farmer's house' ( Protestant Dissenter's Magazine, 258) near Bridgwater, Somerset. Of his parents nothing is known. In his youth he showed enough promise for a dissenting minister, ...
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Peacocke, Arthur Robert (1924–2006), biochemist and theologian
John Polkinghorne
Peacocke, Arthur Robert (1924–2006), biochemist and theologian, was born on 29 November 1924 at 221 Chester Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of Arthur Charles Peacocke, butcher, and his wife, Rose Elizabeth, née Lilly. He was educated at Watford grammar school and Exeter College, Oxford...
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Podmore, Frank (1856–1910), writer on psychical research
Alan Gauld
Podmore, Frank (1856–1910), writer on psychical research, was born at Elstree, Hertfordshire, on 5 February 1856, third son of the Revd Thompson Podmore (1823–1895) and his wife, Georgina Elizabeth, daughter of George Grey Barton and Sarah Barton. After attending Elstree Hill School from 1863 to 1868, ...
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Reade, William Winwood (1838–1875), traveller, novelist, and controversialist
Felix Driver
Reade, William Winwood (1838–1875), traveller, novelist, and controversialist, the eldest son of William Barrington Reade (1803–1881) and Elizabeth Reade (1810–1895) (daughter of Captain John Murray RN), of Ipsden House, Oxfordshire, was born at St Finan, near Crieff, Perthshire, on 26 December 1838. He was educated at ...
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Scott, Cyril Meir (1879–1970), composer and writer on the occult
Diana Swann
Scott, Cyril Meir (1879–1970), composer and writer on the occult, was born on 27 September 1879 in Oxton, Cheshire, the youngest of the three children of Henry Scott (1843–1918), businessman and amateur Greek scholar, and his Welsh wife, Mary Griffiths. Not a strong child, ...
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Strange, (Thomas) Lumisden (1808–1884), judge and theological writer
J. B. Katz
Strange, (Thomas) Lumisden (1808–1884), judge and theological writer, was born at Landon's Gardens, Poonamallee Road, Madras, on 4 January 1808, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1756–1841), first chief justice of Madras, and his second wife, Louisa (1788–1862), youngest daughter of ...
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