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Facts

Born April 10, 1829 • Nottingham • England
Died August 20, 1912 (aged 83) • London • England
Founder Salvation Army
Notable Family Members spouse Catherine Booth • son William Bramwell Booth

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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.
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Stephen Marshall
English clergyman
Maud Ballington Booth.
Maud Ballington Booth
American religious leader
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Catherine Booth
British religious leader
Booth, William Bramwell
William Bramwell Booth
British minister
George Whitefield
George Whitefield
British clergyman
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Tim LaHaye
American Baptist evangelical leader
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
American evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson
American religious leader
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Hannah Whitall Smith
American evangelist and reformer
Thomas Chalmers, detail from an oil painting by Sir John Watson Gordon, c. 1837; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Thomas Chalmers
Scottish minister
“Sweet Daddy”
Charles Emmanuel Grace
American preacher
Dwight L. Moody
Dwight L. Moody
American evangelist
Sunday, Billy
Billy Sunday
American evangelist
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
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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Emily Hobhouse
British social worker