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Born September 24, 1759 • Reading • England
Died November 13, 1836 (aged 77) • Cambridge • England • (Died on this day)
Founder Church Missionary Society
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
English Protestant
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
Andrewes, Lancelot
Lancelot Andrewes
English theologian
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Brooke Foss Westcott
British bishop and scholar
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Burnett Hillman Streeter
British theologian
Nowell, Alexander
Alexander Nowell
English priest
George Whitefield
George Whitefield
British clergyman
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Rowland Hill
British preacher
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
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Origen
Christian theologian
Benny Hinn
Benny Hinn
televangelist
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
archbishop of Constantinople
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Hesychius Of Jerusalem
Eastern Orthodox monk
John Bunyan
John Bunyan
English author
Engraved portrait of William Penn wearing a dark coat, white cravat, and wide-brimmed hat, with shoulder-length curly hair.
William Penn
English religious leader
George Fox
George Fox
English preacher and missionary
William Booth, an elderly man with white hair and a long beard, sits holding eyeglasses and an open book, wearing a Salvation Army uniform.
William Booth
British minister
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Anthony Collins
British theologian
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Catherine Booth
British religious leader
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Granville Sharp
English scholar and philanthropist