Religion
- (1396) Walter Hilton, the mystic and author of The Ladder of Perfection, was a canon of Thurgarton Priory.
- (1489) Thomas Cranmer, archbishop and martyr, was born at Aslockton, Nottinghamshire.
- (c. 1550) Thomas Helwys, co-founder of the Baptist denomination, defender of religious liberty and victim of religious persecution.
- (1549/50) Gervase Babington, Anglican theologian and bishop of Worcester, was born in Nottinghamshire.
- (1560 or 1566) William Brewster, postmaster of Scrooby, later sailed as one of the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower to the new Plymouth Colony.
- (c. 1600) Elizabeth Hooton, the first female Quaker preacher, lived at Skegby.
- (1631) John Barret, Presbyterian minister, was born and died in Nottingham.
- (1698) Caleb Williams, dissenting minister and polemicist, was born in Nottingham on 4 November 1698.
- (1738) Daniel Taylor, founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists, was baptised in the River Idle at Gamston, Bassetlaw.
- (1779) Joseph Gilbert, Congregational writer and minister in Friar Lane, Nottingham.
- (1781) Samuel Fox, the Quaker philanthropist, was from Nottingham.
- (1800) William Williams, missionary in New Zealand, and first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu.
- (1829) William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army.
- (1860) Herbert Kelly, an Anglican priest, moved his Society of the Sacred Mission to Kelham Hall in 1903.
- (1886) Arthur Pink, the US evangelist and religious writer, was born in Nottingham.
- (1950) Kobutsu Malone, the American Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest and prison reformer, was born Kevin Christopher Malone in Nottingham.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, and obedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... “As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest.” I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)