List of People From Hackney - Notable Residents - Religion

Religion

Name Notability District Notes
William Booth founder of the Salvation Army Stoke Newington B (buried in Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington)
Vicesimus Knox Anglican pacifist Hoxton L
Isaac Watts Theologian, logician, and hymn writer Stoke Newington L
Jabez Whiteley Anglican missionary, and first Bishop of Chota Nagpur Hoxton B
*Arguably, all the English Dissenters associated with Newington Green Unitarian Church, as the church itself lies within Hackney, although the rest of the green (and thus most of the houses) belong to Islington. Notable ministers of the church:
    • Richard Price, political radical who preached on the French and American Revolutions (see Revolution Controversy)
    • Thomas Rees (Unitarian minister), a leading authority of the history of Unitarianism, and made connections with the Unitarian Church of Transylvania

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