Gloucestershire

…Raikes certainly did much to promote the movement. His first school began in a cottage in St Catherine’s Street in 1780. Sunday Schools in the eighteenth century were not just…

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Hereford & Worcester

…travelled constantly in his diocese, preaching, exhorting and promoting church building. On visits to Bristol, he suppressed a flourishing slave trade with Ireland. Respected by all sides, he helped to…

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Kent

…they lost heart and returned to Rome. Gregory encouraged them to continue, providing Frankish interpreters and letters of introduction, and promoting Augustine to the rank of Abbot. They set off…

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Leicestershire

…privilege of appointing able preachers as her chaplains. Some of these were men who had been refused ordination or promotion in the church for “enthusiasm”. If they preached within her…

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London (Central)

…Testament epistle! He also rediscovered the Reformed doctrines of the Puritans and promoted their publication of their works for a new generation of Bible students. A firm believer in independent…

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London (South)

…for promoting animal welfare. Spurgeon’s house, Clapham In today’s Clapham, most of the houses of the Sect members have gone, but their names live on as streets and schools. Macaulay…

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Northumberland

promotion through the ranks of church and university.  He was a Fellow of Pembroke by 1524 and Master in 1540. In 1537, he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer and…

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Nottinghamshire

…of the full-bearded General, arm raised in preaching, stands outside. Adjacent modern buildings provide an education and conference centre to promote the Army’s work. Arranged on three floors, the exhibits…

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Oxfordshire

…to the Oxford Movement, which was at the time vigorously promoting sacramental and ritualistic practices in the Church of England. The memorial is 73 feet high with steps at the…

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Warwickshire

…he began a scheme to provide parish libraries throughout England and America, which led to the formation of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In 1699 he went to Maryland…

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