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Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
John Bunyan
English Christian writer and preacher (1628-1688)
John Henry Newman
English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
George Fox
English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
Julian of Norwich
English theologian and anchoress
Gerald Gardner
British Wiccan leader (1884–1964)
Reginald Pole
English cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
Charles Wesley
English Methodist and hymn writer (1707-1788)
John Foxe
16th-century English historian
Aldhelm
Aldhelm (, ; 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. He was certainly not, as his early biographer Faritius asserts, the brother of King Ine. After his death he was venerated as a saint, his feast day being the day of his death, 25 May.
Margery Kempe
British Christian mystic and author
Robert Hugh Benson
British writer and Catholic priest (1871–1914)
Evelyn Underhill
British mystic, poet, and novelist (1875–1941)
Sarah Trimmer
author, editor; (1741-1810); married, in 1762, James Trimmer, of Brentford
Barbara Taylor Bradford
British novelist (1933–2024)
William Allen
English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Kallistos (Ware)
English theologian (1934–2022)
Richard Cumberland
English dramatist and civil servant (1732–1811)
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
British judge, politician and Cabinet minister (1907–2001)
Mary Martha Sherwood
British children's author
J. I. Packer
Canadian theologian (1926-2020)
Richard Rolle
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300–1349)
Abdullah Quilliam
founder of England's first Mosque
Friedrich von Hügel
Austrian Roman Catholic layman theologian (1852–1925)
William Alabaster
English poet, playwright, and religious writer
Bede Griffiths
Benedictine Monk (1906–1993)
William Prynne
English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure
Joseph Wolff
Jewish Christian missionary
Francis Asbury
Methodist bishop in America (1745-1816)
Ethelbert William Bullinger
British Anglican clergyman, biblical scholar and theologian (1837-1913)
Margaret Benson
British author and Egyptologist (1865–1916)
Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne
British rower, agriculturalist and translator (1896–1982)
John Robert Seeley
British historian (1834–1895)
Samuel Beal
British oriental scholar (1825–1889)
Peter Annet
English deist/early freethinker
Sir George Wheler
English clergyman and writer
Hugh Gilbert
Catholic bishop
Ancrene Wisse
monastic rule for female anchoresses written in the early 13th century
John Robinson
pastor and English Separatist (1576–1625)
Henry William Wilberforce
English writer, Church of England clergyman; Tractarian; convert to the Roman Catholic Church; newspaper proprietor, editor and journalist (1807-1873)
Anne Halkett
English religious writer and autobiographer
Evangeline Booth
General of the Salvation Army (1865–1950)
Walter Hilton
English Augustinian mystic
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
British writer, editor
William Hurrell Mallock
British writer (1849-1923)
Georgiana Fullerton
English novelist (1812–1885)
Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi
British writer (1933–2020)
Bulstrode Whitelocke
English politician (1605-1675)
Hugh Reginald Haweis
British writer (1838–1901)
Victoria Lidiard
British suffragette
Henry Venn
English mission society administrator (1796–1873)
Legh Richmond
English evangelical cleric and writer; (1772-1827)
Caroline Lucy Scott
English writer (1784-1857)
Thomas Sternhold
British writer
Robert Abbot
English theologian
Stewart Farrar
British writer (1916–2000)
Bernard Vaughan
British writer (1847–1922)