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Born November 10, 1735 • Durham • England
Died July 6, 1813 (aged 77) • London • England
Charles Simeon
British clergyman
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce
British politician
John Newton
John Newton
English clergyman and writer
Anthony Collins
British theologian
Thomas Clarkson
English abolitionist
Brooke Foss Westcott
British bishop and scholar
Burnett Hillman Streeter
British theologian
Henry Wheeler Robinson
British theologian
Thomas Fowell Buxton.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
British philanthropist and politician
Sturge, detail of a lithograph by M. Gauci after a painting by A. Rippingille, early 19th century
Joseph Sturge
British philanthropist
Gilbert Crispin
Roman Catholic clergyman
William Sanday
British biblical scholar
Sir Edwyn Clement Hoskyns, 13th Baronet
British theologian
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
Dutch-Jewish philosopher
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
United States official and diplomat
Origen
Christian theologian