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Born January 21, 1613 • Kirkcaldy • Scotland
Died December 17, 1648 (aged 35) • Kirkcaldy • Scotland
Subjects Of Study Church of Scotland
John Knox, engraving from Icones, by T. Beza, 1580.
John Knox
Scottish religious leader
John Napier
John Napier
Scottish mathematician
Alexander Henderson
Alexander Henderson
Scottish minister
Andrew Melville, engraving
Andrew Melville
Scottish clergyman and scholar
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Edward Irving
Scottish minister
Norman Macleod, detail of an oil painting by T. Knott; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Norman Macleod
Scottish minister
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David Calderwood
Scottish clergyman
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James Moffatt
British biblical scholar
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John Erskine
Scottish religious leader [1509–1591]
Duff, Alexander
Alexander Duff
Scottish minister
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John McLeod Campbell
Scottish theologian
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James Melville
Scottish clergyman
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William Carstares
Scottish minister
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Robert Baillie
Scottish minister
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
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Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
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Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher