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John Bird Sumner

(1780—1862) archbishop of Canterbury

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Gorham Case

Gorham Case  

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In 1847 the Revd G. C. Gorham was presented to the vicarage of Brampford Speke. The Bp. of Exeter, H. Phillpotts, found him unsound on the doctrine of baptismal regeneration and refused to institute ...
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Henry Phillpotts  

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(1778–1869),Bp. of Exeter. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and in 1795 elected a Fellow of Magdalen. From 1805 to 1826 he held a number of benefices ...
Lambeth Conferences

Lambeth Conferences  

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Assemblies of the bishops of the Anglican Communion held about every ten years under the presidency of the Abp. of Canterbury, originally in Lambeth Palace, but since 1978 in the University of Kent ...
Sumner, John Bird

Sumner, John Bird (1780–1862)   Reference library

The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists

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Sumner was born at Kenilworth on 25 February 1780, the eldest son of Robert Sumner, vicar of Stoneleigh. He

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