Individuals and groups were sent to places where a need was seen for Christian instruction, normally in foreign parts. The Moravian Church began sending out missionaries in 1732. The China Inland Mission was established for this very purpose.
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Canon Richard Watson Dixon
Born Islington. Ecclesiastical historian and poet. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he became one of the ‘Birmingham Group’ along with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He was considered for Poe...
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James Walworth
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
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Rt. Revd. Bishop R. W. Stannard
Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in 1973.
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Lincoln Stanhope Wainright
He came to St Peter's Church, London Docks in 1873, and devoted himself to providing the local people with schools, clubs and medical facilities. On one occasion he gave away his own clothes to a n...
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Bishop Edmund Bonner
Bishop of London 1539-49 and 1553-59. This was a period when a job in the church was a fraught occupation. Bonner fared better under Catholic monarchs, but not much. As chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey...
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Robert Aske
Son of a draper. Worked as a haberdasher; 1643 became a Freeman of the Haberdashers Company; 1666 elected an Alderman of the City of London. He became Master of the Haberdashers' Company. But the r...
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