Jeremy Taylor

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Baptized	August 15, 1613
Died	August 13, 1667 • Lisburn • Ireland

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John Bunyan

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Matthew Arnold

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St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

Samuel Butler

English author [1835-1902]

John Newton

English clergyman and writer

G.K. Chesterton

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St. Edmund of Abingdon

archbishop of Canterbury

Keble, chalk drawing by George Richmond, 1863; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Keble

British priest and poet

Thomas Traherne

English poet

Richard Baxter

English minister

Robert Southwell

English poet and martyr

Julian of Norwich

English mystic

Thomas Hughes

British jurist and author

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Richard Rolle

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Ronald Knox

British theologian

Hugh Paulin Cressy

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Sir Richard Baker

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Walter Hilton

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Thomas Emlyn

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Frederic William Farrar

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