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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon (1759 - November 13, 1836), was an English evangelical clergyman. He was born at Reading and educated at Eton College and Cambridge. In 1782 he became fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and took orders, receiving the living of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, in the following year. He was at first so unpopular that services were frequently interrupted, and he was often insulted in the streets. Having overcome public prejudice, he subsequently gained a remarkable and lasting ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the trio of Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. Brontë was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving her five daughters and a son to th ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Captain Clegg

Captain Clegg is a fictional character and is one of the aliases of the Rev. Dr. Christopher Syn in a series of novels by Russell Thorndike. Doctor Syn had been a humble country vicar married to the Spanish Imogene. When his wife was seduced away from him, Syn swore vengeance and became the pirate Clegg to hunt them down. Eventually, Syn tired of his quest and returned to the little town of Dymchurch to resume his life as a clergyman. As fate would have it his old enemy "Black Nick" was hanged for piracy. Syn agreed to raise Ni ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini

Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini SJ (born 15 February 1927), Italian clergyman, was Catholic Archbishop of Milan from January 1980 to July 2002 and has been a Cardinal since February 1983. Often considered to be one of the more "progressive" members of the College of Cardinals, he has achieved widespread notice for his wide-ranging and open-minded writings — popularity in some circles, notoriety in others. Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini - Career. Born in Turin, Italy in 1927, Martini entered the ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Wilberforce

Wilberforce can refer to: the family name of several prominent English men: William Wilberforce, who fought against the slave trade, and Samuel Wilberforce, his son, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley. Robert Isaac Wilberforce, his son, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer. Henry William Wilberforce, his youngest son, a Catholic convert, journalist and author Richard Wilberforce, great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce (the slave trade

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - We Three Kings

We Three Kings of Orient Are is a Christmas carol (technically an Epiphany carol) written in 1857 by Reverend John Henry Hopkins. He wrote both the words and the music as part of a Christmas pageant for the General Theological Seminary in New York City. It first appeared in his Carols, Hymns and Song in 1863. Hopkins was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1820, and died in Hudson, New York in 1891. He was a clergyman, author, book illustrator, stained glass window designer, and editor of the Church Journal out of New York. In the United Kingdom, it is common for school children to ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - William Rutter Dawes

William Rutter Dawes (March 19, 1799 – February 15, 1868) was a British astronomer. He was a clergyman who made extensive measurements of double stars as well as observations of planets. He was a friend of William Lassell. He was nicknamed "eagle eye". He made extensive drawings of Mars during its 1864 opposition. In 1867, Richard Anthony Proctor made a map of Mars based on these drawings. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1855. Craters on Mars and on the Moon are named after him. < ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - 1614

1614 - Births. January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672) January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662) July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686) December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674 1614 - Month/day unknown. Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist who first distilled beverage alcohol (d. 1672) ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - David Dudley Field

David Dudley Field (February 13, 1805 - April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer. He was born in Haddam, Connecticut. He was the oldest of the four sons of the Rev. David Dudley Field (1781-1867), a well-known American clergyman and author. He graduated from Williams College in 1825, and settled in New York City, where he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1828, and rapidly won a high position in his profession. Becoming convinced that the common law in America, and particularly in New York state, needed rad ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Vadstena bracteate

The Vadstena bracteate (or rather bracteates since there are two of them) is a gold C-bracteate found in the earth at Vadstena in 1774. A goldsmith was about to recycle the gold by melting the bracteate but was stopped by a local clergyman. The bracteate is believed to have been minted at the end of the 6th century. In the middle of the bracteate is a four-legged animal with a man's head above it, and in front of this a bird separated from the other image by a line. (The image is commonly associated with Odin in bracteate icono ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Charles Webster Leadbeater

C.W. Leadbeater (1847 or 1854-1934), English clergyman and Theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as a clairvoyant. Leadbeater was an Anglican priest when he joined the Theosophical Society in 1883. The next year he met Helena Petrovna Blavatsky when she came to London. At this time he was the recipient of a few Mahatma letters which influenced him to go to India. In India he claimed to have received visits and training from some of Blavatsky's Masters. See C.W. Leadbeater's "Account of the Development of His Clairvoyance. ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson (July, 1591 – August 20, 1643) was the unauthorized Puritan preacher of a dissident church discussion group and a pioneer in Rhode Island and the Bronx. Anne Hutchinson - Early years. Hutchinson was born Anne Marbury on an unknown date sometime in July of 1591 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. Her parents were Francis Marbury (1555-1611), a clergyman, and Bridget Dryden (1563-1645). At the age of 21, she married William Hutchinson. They were part of the Puritan movement, especially ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia II - James Blair clergyman - Capital of Virginia Williamsburg

The State House at Jamestown burned again (for the third time) in 1698, and as it had in the past, the legislature again took up temporary quarters at Middle Plantation. On May 1, 1699, Blair and five students of the College of William and Mary appeared before the House of Burgesses (which was meeting nearby in temporary quarters) to suggest that they designate Middle Plantation (soon to renamed Williamsburg in honor of King William III), ...

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