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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Lincolnshire

…commentary on the book of Job. He even contemplated founding a missionary society to take the gospel to India and China at a time when few gave any thought to…

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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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Shropshire

…of two of the Church of England’s oldest missionary organisations – the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In 1695 he was…

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Sussex

…reached Lake Victoria, but had to return to England through ill-health in 1883. Gaining rapid promotion, he was consecrated Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1884, and within a few…

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Wiltshire

…went to India and later to Africa, where he founded the Heart of Africa Mission. He was contemptuous of half-hearted Christianity and summed up his philosophy in the couplet: Some…

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