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Religious Tract Society

Index Religious Tract Society

The Religious Tract Society, founded 1799, 56 Paternoster Row and 65 St. [1]

98 relations: Abednego Seller, Abney Park Cemetery, Adelia Sarah Gates, Agnes Giberne, Aisha, American Tract Society, Amy Catherine Walton, Anchorite, Angels from the Realms of Glory, Arthur Twidle, Augustus Buckland, Bilihildis, British and Foreign Bible Society, Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Charles Reed (British politician), Children's Books History Society, Cobwebs to Catch Flies, David Bogue, Dorothy Ann Thrupp, E. A. Wallis Budge, Ebenezer Henderson, Edward Eagar, Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, Elizabeth Youatt, Elliot Stock, Ernest Prater, Evelyn Everett-Green, Favell Lee Mortimer, Feng Yuxiang, Flora Klickmann, Florence Meyerheim, Frances Browne, Francis William Bourdillon, George Bourne, George Burder, George Grenfell, George Mogridge (Old Humphrey), George Rawson, Harold Copping, Henry Cadman Jones, Hesba Stretton, Howell Elvet Lewis, James Fleming (priest), James Gilmour (missionary), James Macaulay (editor), John Campbell (missionary), John Dibbs, John Dickie (evangelist), John Marshall (publisher), John Murdoch (literary evangelist), ..., John Young (architect), Joseph Angus, Joseph Austin Benwell, Joseph Finnemore, Joseph Gurney, Joseph Milner, Joseph Sortain, Joseph Swain (engraver), Josephine Butler bibliography, Legh Richmond, List of Christian media organizations, List of Christians in science and technology, List of Protestant missionary societies, Louisa Gurney Hoare, Mary Anne Rawson, Mary Jones and her Bible, Miss Clack, Mount St Bernard Abbey, Mrs. Prosser, Olinthus Gregory, OMF International, Paternoster Row, Percy F. Westerman, Richard Lovett (writer), Rosa Nouchette Carey, Rowland Hill (preacher), Sarah Doudney, Sunday school, Talbot Baines Reed, Tel Rumeida, The Boy's Own Paper, The Dairyman's Daughter, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's, The Girl's Own Paper, The Leisure Hour, The Lutterworth Press, Thomas Charles, Thomas Rawson Birks, Thomas Spencer (minister), Timeline of Jane Austen, Tom Bevan, Tract (literature), Walter Hawken Tregellas, William Garrett Lewis, William Hendry Stowell, William Henry Jones, Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible, 1854 in the United Kingdom. Expand index (48 more) »

Abednego Seller

Abednego Seller (1646?–1705) was an English non-juring divine and controversial writer.

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Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England.

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Adelia Sarah Gates

Adelia Sarah Gates (October 24, 1825 - September 21, 1912) was an American illustrator of botanical specimens.

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Agnes Giberne

Agnes Giberne (19 November 1845 in Belgaum, India – 20 August 1939 in Eastbourne, England) was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people.

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Aisha

‘Ā’ishah bint Abī Bakr (613/614 – 678 CE;عائشة بنت أبي بكر or عائشة, transliteration: ‘Ā’ishah, also transcribed as A'ishah, Aisyah, Ayesha, A'isha, Aishat, Aishah, or Aisha) was one of Muhammad's wives.

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American Tract Society

The American Tract Society (ATS) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian but evangelical organization founded on May 11, 1825 in New York City for the purpose of publishing and disseminating Christian literature.

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Amy Catherine Walton

Amy Catherine Walton (9 August 1849 – 1939), born Amy Catherine Deck and better known as Mrs O. F. Walton, was an English author of Christian children's books, mainly but not exclusively fictional.

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Anchorite

An anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress; adj. anchoritic; from ἀναχωρητής, anachōrētḗs, "one who has retired from the world", from the verb ἀναχωρέω, anachōréō, signifying "to withdraw", "to retire") is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, or Eucharist-focused life.

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Angels from the Realms of Glory

"Angels from the Realms of Glory" is a Christmas carol written by Scottish poet James Montgomery.

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Arthur Twidle

Arthur Twidle (?1865 to 26 April 1936) was an English illustrator and artist best known for his illustrations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books.

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Augustus Buckland

Rev.

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Bilihildis

Bilihildis (also spelled Bilihilt, Bilhild, Bilehild; died 734) was a Frankish noblewoman, remembered as the founder and abbess of the monastery of Altmünster near Mainz, and venerated locally as a saint, on Nov.

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British and Foreign Bible Society

The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply the Bible Society, is a non-denominational Christian Bible society with charity status whose purpose is to make the Bible available throughout the world.

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Cecilia Lucy Brightwell

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell (1811–1875), known to her contemporaries as Lucy Brightwell, was an English etcher and author, mostly of volumes of short biographies intended for young people.

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Charles Reed (British politician)

Sir Charles Reed FSA (19 June 1819 – 25 March 1881) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hackney and St Ives, Chairman of the London School Board, Director and Trustee of the original Abney Park Cemetery Joint Stock Company, Chairman of the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee, associate of George Peabody, lay Congregationalist, and owner of a successful commercial typefounding business in London.

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Children's Books History Society

The Children's Books History Society (CBHS) is a group promoting Children's literature of the past.

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Cobwebs to Catch Flies

Cobwebs to Catch Flies (1783) is a children's book by Ellenor Fenn, originally anonymous, but later editions were advertised as being by Mrs Teachwell or "Mrs Lovechild".

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David Bogue

David Bogue (18 February 175025 October 1825) was a British nonconformist leader.

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Dorothy Ann Thrupp

Dorothy Ann Thrupp (often, Dorothea Ann Thrupp or Dorothy A. Thrupp; pseudonyms Iota and D.A.T.; 20 June 1779 – 14 December 1847) was a British psalmist, hymnwriter, and translator.

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E. A. Wallis Budge

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.

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Ebenezer Henderson

Ebenezer Henderson (17 November 1784 – 17 May 1858) was a Scottish minister and missionary.

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Edward Eagar

Edward Eagar (1787–1866) was a lawyer, merchant and criminal.

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Elizabeth Rebecca Ward

Elizabeth Rebecca Ward (2 December 1880 – 16 April 1978) was a prolific English writer of popular verse, religious works, and works for children.

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Elizabeth Youatt

Elizabeth Youatt or Mrs.

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Elliot Stock

Elliot Stock (1838 - 1 March 1911) was an English publisher and bibliophile who collected first editions.

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Ernest Prater

Ernest Prater (1864–1950) was a noted English artist and book illustrator, notable also for his work as a war correspondent and reportage artist during the Anglo-Boer War.

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Evelyn Everett-Green

Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London – 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then turned to adult romantic fiction.

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Favell Lee Mortimer

Favell Lee Mortimer, born Favell Lee Bevan (14 July 1802 – 22 August 1878) was a British Evangelical author of educational books for children.

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Feng Yuxiang

Feng Yuxiang (6 November 1882 – 1 September 1948) was a warlord and leader in Republican China from Chaohu, Anhui.

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Flora Klickmann

Emily Flora Klickmann (26 January 1867 – 20 November 1958) was an English journalist, author and editor.

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Florence Meyerheim

Florence Meyerheim (October 1873 – c. 1936) was a British illustrator of children's books.

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Frances Browne

Frances Browne (16 January 1816 – 21 August 1879) was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair.

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Francis William Bourdillon

Francis William Bourdillon (22 March 1852 at Runcorn, Cheshire – 13 January 1921 at Buddington, Midhurst) was a British poet and translator.

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George Bourne

George Bourne (1780–1845) was a 19th-century American abolitionist and editor, credited as the first public proclaimer of "immediate emancipation without compensation" of American slaves.

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George Burder

George Burder (May 25, 1752 O.S.May 29, 1832) was an English Nonconformist divine.

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George Grenfell

George Grenfell (21 August 1849, in Sancreed, Cornwall – 1 July 1906, in Basoko, Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)) was a Cornish missionary and explorer.

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George Mogridge (Old Humphrey)

George Mogridge ("Old Humphrey") (17 February 1787 – 2 November 1854) was a prolific 19th century writer, poet and author of children's books and religious tracts.

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George Rawson

George Rawson (1807-1889) was an English hymnwriter and Congregationalist lay person, who was born in Leeds on 5 June 1807 and died in Clifton, Bristol on 25 March 1889.

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Harold Copping

Harold Copping (25 August 1863–1 July 1932) was a British artist best known as an illustrator of Biblical scenes.

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Henry Cadman Jones

Henry Cadman Jones (1818–1902) was an English law reporter.

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Hesba Stretton

Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (27 July 18328 October 1911), an English writer of children's books.

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Howell Elvet Lewis

Howell Elvet Lewis, CH (14 April 1860 – 10 December 1953), widely known by his bardic name Elfed, was a Welsh Congregational minister, hymn-writer, and devotional poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1924 to 1928.

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James Fleming (priest)

James Fleming (1830–1908) was an Irish clergyman of the Church of England, known as a public speaker and fund-raiser.

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James Gilmour (missionary)

James Gilmour (Chinese:景雅各) (12 June 1843 - 21 May 1891) was a Scottish Protestant Christian missionary in China and Mongolia.

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James Macaulay (editor)

James Macaulay (1817–1902) was a Scottish medical man, journalist and author, best known as a periodical editor.

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John Campbell (missionary)

John Campbell (born March 1766 in Edinburgh, Scotland – 4 April 1840 Kingsland, London), was a Scottish missionary and traveller.

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John Dibbs

Captain John Dibbs, (1790–1872) was a master mariner prominent during 1822–1835 in the seas around the colony of New South Wales, New Zealand and the Society Islands (now part of Tahiti).

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John Dickie (evangelist)

John Dickie (January 1823, at Irvine, Ayrshire – 18 January 1891, also at Irvine) was a Scottish evangelist and writer.

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John Marshall (publisher)

John Marshall (1756–1824) was a London publisher who specialized in children's literature, chapbooks, educational games and teaching schemes.

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John Murdoch (literary evangelist)

John Murdoch (July 22, 1819 - August 10, 1904) was a Scottish Christian missionary who served in Ceylon and India in the 19th century.

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John Young (architect)

John Young (1797 – 23 March 1877) was an English architect and surveyor whose career spanned the grace of the Regency period and the pragmatism of the Industrial Revolution.

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Joseph Angus

Joseph Angus (16 January 1816 – 28 August 1902) was an English Baptist minister, college head, and biblical scholar.

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Joseph Austin Benwell

Joseph Austin Benwell (1816–1886) was an English artist, engraver and illustrator.

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Joseph Finnemore

Joseph Finnemore (1860-1939) was born in Birmingham in 1860 and educated at the Birmingham School of Art and in Antwerp under Michel Marie Charles Verlat.

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Joseph Gurney

Joseph Gurney (15 October 1804 – 12 August 1879), was a British shorthand writer and biblical scholar, notable for his publications and work with the Religious Tract Society.

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Joseph Milner

Joseph Milner (1744–1797) was an English evangelical divine.

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Joseph Sortain

Joseph Sortain (1809–1860) was a British nonconformist minister, an evangelical Independent, philosophy tutor at Cheshunt College, and biographer of Francis Bacon.

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Joseph Swain (engraver)

Joseph Swain (29 February 1820 in Oxford – 25 February 1909 in London) was an English wood-engraver.

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Josephine Butler bibliography

Josephine Butler (1828–1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era.

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Legh Richmond

Legh Richmond (1772–1827) was a Church of England clergyman and writer.

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List of Christian media organizations

This is a list of Christian media organizations.

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List of Christians in science and technology

This is a list of Christians in science and technology.

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List of Protestant missionary societies

The following list of Protestant missionary societies is a list of Protestant Christian missionary organizations that began between 1691-1900.

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Louisa Gurney Hoare

Louisa Gurney Hoare (25 September 1784 – 6 September 1836) was an English diarist and writer on education, and a member of the Gurney family.

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Mary Anne Rawson

Mary Anne Rawson (1801–1887) was an abolitionist.

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Mary Jones and her Bible

The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

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Miss Clack

Miss Clack (Drusilla) is a character, and part-narrator, in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone.

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Mount St Bernard Abbey

Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Catholic (Cistercian) monastery of the Strict Observance (Trappists) near Coalville in Leicestershire, England, formerly in the parish of Whitwick and now of that in Charley, in Charnwood Forest, founded in 1835.

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Mrs. Prosser

Mrs.

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Olinthus Gregory

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 1774 – 2 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author and editor.

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OMF International

OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Protestant Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore.

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Paternoster Row

Paternoster Row was a street in the City of London that is supposed to have received its name from the fact that, when the monks and clergy of St Paul's Cathedral would go in procession chanting the great litany, they would recite the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster being its opening line in Latin) in the litany along this part of the route.

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Percy F. Westerman

Percy Francis Westerman (1876 – 22 February 1959) was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books adventures with military and naval themes.

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Richard Lovett (writer)

Richard Lovett (5 January 1851 – 29 December 1904) was an English minister in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and author.

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Rosa Nouchette Carey

Rosa Nouchette Carey (27 September 1840 – 9 July 1909) was an English children's writer and popular novelist, whose works reflected the values of her time and were thought of as wholesome for girls.

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Rowland Hill (preacher)

Rowland Hill A.M. (1744–1833) was a popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination.

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Sarah Doudney

Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford)Charlotte Mitchell,, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005, retrieved 11 July 2008 was an English novelist, short-story writer and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymn-writer.

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Sunday school

A Sunday School is an educational institution, usually (but not always) Christian, which catered to children and other young people who would be working on weekdays.

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Talbot Baines Reed

Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century.

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Tel Rumeida

Tel Rumeida/Jabla al Rahama (تل رميدة; תל רומיידה) is an agricultural and residential area in the West Bank city of Hebron.

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The Boy's Own Paper

The Boy's Own Paper was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.

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The Dairyman's Daughter

The Dairyman's Daughter is an early 19th-century Christian religious booklet of 52 pages, which had a remarkably wide distribution and influence.

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The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's

The Fifth Form at St.

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The Girl's Own Paper

The Girl's Own Paper (G.O.P.)was a British story paper catering to girls and young women, published from 1880 until 1956.

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The Leisure Hour

The Leisure Hour was a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era which ran weekly from 1852 to 1905.

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The Lutterworth Press

The Lutterworth Press, one of the oldest independent British publishing houses, has traded since the late eighteenth century - initially as the Religious Tract Society (RTS).

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Thomas Charles

Thomas Charles (14 October 1755 – 5 October 1814) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.

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Thomas Rawson Birks

Thomas Rawson Birks (28 September 1810 – 19 July 1883) was an English theologian and controversialist, who figured in the debate to try to resolve theology and science.

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Thomas Spencer (minister)

Thomas Spencer (1791–1811) was an English Congregational minister.

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Timeline of Jane Austen

Jane Austen lived her entire life as part of a family located socially and economically on the lower fringes of the English gentry.

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Tom Bevan

Tom Bevan (1868–1938), who also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Bamfylde, was a British writer of boys' adventure stories.

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Tract (literature)

A tract is a literary work, and in current usage, usually religious in nature.

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Walter Hawken Tregellas

Walter Hawken Tregellas (1831–1894), miscellaneous writer, born at Truro, Cornwall, UK on 10 July 1831, was a professional draughtsman and writer of historical, biographical and other works.

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William Garrett Lewis

William Garrett Lewis (1821–1885) was a Baptist preacher and pastor of Westbourne Grove Church in Bayswater, London for 33 years.

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William Hendry Stowell

William Hendry Stowell (1800–1858) was an English nonconformist minister, college head, writer and periodical editor.

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William Henry Jones

William Henry Jones (1817–1885), William Henry Rich Jones from 1883, was an English Anglican priest and antiquarian.

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Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible

Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible is a concordance to the Bible compiled by Robert Young first published in 1879.

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1854 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1854 in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Tract_Society

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