Aelred of RievaulxW
Aelred of Rievaulx

Aelred of Rievaulx ; also Ailred, Ælred, and Æthelred; was an English Cistercian monk, abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his death, and known as a writer. He is regarded by Anglicans and Catholics as a saint.

Lancelot AndrewesW
Lancelot Andrewes

Lancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, of Ely, and of Winchester and oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible. In the Church of England he is commemorated on 25 September with a Lesser Festival.

W. J. E. BennettW
W. J. E. Bennett

William James Early Bennett was an Anglican priest. Bennett is celebrated for having provoked the decision that the doctrine of the Real Presence is a dogma not inconsistent with the creed of the Church of England. This followed the publication of his pamphlet A Plea for Toleration in the Church of England (1867) in the form of a letter to Edward Bouverie Pusey.

Ofspring BlackallW
Ofspring Blackall

Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter and religious controversialist, was born in London.

Joseph ButlerW
Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler was an English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire. He is known, among other things, for his critique of Deism, Thomas Hobbes's egoism, and John Locke's theory of personal identity. Butler influenced many philosophers and religious thinkers, including David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Henry Sidgwick, John Henry Newman, and C. D. Broad, and is widely considered "as one of the preeminent English moralists." He also played an important, though under appreciated, role in the development of eighteenth-century economic discourse, greatly influencing the Dean of Gloucester and political economist Josiah Tucker.

Edmund Calamy (historian)W
Edmund Calamy (historian)

Edmund Calamy was an English Nonconformist churchman and historian.

Folliott CornewallW
Folliott Cornewall

Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall was an English bishop of three sees.

Tobias CrispW
Tobias Crisp

Tobias Crisp D.D. (1600–1643) was an English clergyman and reputed antinomian. In the end he proved a divisive figure for English Calvinists, with a serious controversy arising from the republication of his works in the 1690s.

William FleetwoodW
William Fleetwood

William Fleetwood was an English preacher, Bishop of St Asaph and Bishop of Ely, remembered by economists and statisticians for constructing a price index in his Chronicon Preciosum of 1707.

William GaskellW
William Gaskell

The Reverend William Gaskell was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer and poet.

Andrew GiffordW
Andrew Gifford

Andrew Gifford (1700–1784) was an English Baptist minister and numismatist.

Joseph Hall (bishop)W
Joseph Hall (bishop)

Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.

Samuel HallifaxW
Samuel Hallifax

Samuel Hallifax or Halifax (1733–1790) was an English churchman and academic, holder of several chairs at Cambridge and bishop of two sees.

Robert Hay DrummondW
Robert Hay Drummond

Robert Hay, known later as Robert Hay-Drummond of Cromlix and Innerpeffray, was Archbishop of York from 1761 to 1776.

Reginald HeberW
Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber was an English bishop, man of letters and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a rich landowner and cleric, Heber gained fame at the University of Oxford as a poet. After graduation he made an extended tour of Scandinavia, Russia and Central Europe. Ordained in 1807, he took over his father's old parish, Hodnet, Shropshire. He also wrote hymns and general literature, including a study of the works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor.

Philip HenryW
Philip Henry

Philip Henry was an English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist. His son Matthew Henry was a notable commentator on the Bible and also a Presbyterian minister.

Anthony HorneckW
Anthony Horneck

Anthony Horneck was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, curate of St Giles Cripplegate.

Joseph HusseyW
Joseph Hussey

Joseph Hussey (1660–1726) was an English Calvinist and congregationalist minister.

Samuel JohnsonW
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".

Charles KingsleyW
Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed, but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.

Ronald KnoxW
Ronald Knox

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian, radio broadcaster, and author of detective stories. He is known for his "Ten Commandments" of Detective Fiction that describe a philosophy of writing in which the reader can participate, attempting to find a solution to the mystery before the fictional detective reveals it.

J. B. LightfootW
J. B. Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.

Herbert LockyerW
Herbert Lockyer

Herbert Lockyer (1886–1984) was a minister and best-selling author of over 50 books, including the 21-volume "All" series. He was educated at Glasgow Bible Institute, afterwards receiving honorary degrees at Northwestern Evangelical Seminary, and the International Academy in London. He was most influential, however, after crossing the Atlantic to preach and write in the United States.

Frederick Denison MauriceW
Frederick Denison Maurice

John Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), known as F. D. Maurice, was an English Anglican theologian, a prolific author, and one of the founders of Christian socialism. Since World War II, interest in Maurice has expanded.

Herbert McCabeW
Herbert McCabe

Herbert John Ignatius McCabe was an English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher.

John Henry NewmanW
John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman was an English theologian and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s, and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019.

Zachary PearceW
Zachary Pearce

Zachary Pearce, sometimes known as Zachariah, was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton, attacking Richard Bentley's 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year.

Samuel Eyles PierceW
Samuel Eyles Pierce

The Rev. Samuel Eyles Pierce was an English preacher, theologian, and Calvinist divine. A Dissenter from the Honiton area, Pierce was an evangelical church minister aligned with Calvinist Baptist theology. He wrote more than fifty books and many sermons.

William Morley PunshonW
William Morley Punshon

William Morley Punshon was an English Nonconformist minister.

Edward Bouverie PuseyW
Edward Bouverie Pusey

Edward Bouverie Pusey was an English churchman, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement.

Frederick William RobertsonW
Frederick William Robertson

Frederick William Robertson, known as Robertson of Brighton, was an English divine.

Robert Sanderson (theologian)W
Robert Sanderson (theologian)

Robert Sanderson was an English theologian and casuist.

Thomas SeckerW
Thomas Secker

Thomas Secker was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.

Thomas SherlockW
Thomas Sherlock

Thomas Sherlock was a British divine who served as a Church of England bishop for 33 years. He is also noted in church history as an important contributor to Christian apologetics.

Thomas Vowler ShortW
Thomas Vowler Short

Thomas Vowler Short was an English academic and clergyman, successively Bishop of Sodor and Man and Bishop of St Asaph.

Charles SpurgeonW
Charles Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.

Laurence SterneW
Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting tuberculosis.

John Thomas (bishop of Salisbury)W
John Thomas (bishop of Salisbury)

John Thomas (1691–1766) was an English Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of Salisbury.

Ralph VenningW
Ralph Venning

Ralph Venning was an English nonconformist Christian.

William Ward (missionary)W
William Ward (missionary)

William Ward (1769–1823) was an English pioneer Baptist missionary, author, printer and translator.

Leslie WeatherheadW
Leslie Weatherhead

Leslie Dixon Weatherhead was an English Christian theologian in the liberal Protestant tradition. Weatherhead was noted for his preaching ministry at City Temple in London and for his books, including The Will of God, The Christian Agnostic, and Psychology, Religion, and Healing.

John WesleyW
John Wesley

John Wesley was an English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.

George WhitefieldW
George Whitefield

George Whitefield, also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.

Nicholas WisemanW
Nicholas Wiseman

Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church who became the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850.