Baxter, Richard
Richard Baxter (1615-1691), a Puritan minister and voluminous author of the seventeenth century, wrote the devotional masterpiece Call to the Unconverted and his Saint’s Everlasting Rest.
Richard Baxter (1615-1691), a Puritan minister and voluminous author of the seventeenth century, wrote the devotional masterpiece Call to the Unconverted and his Saint’s Everlasting Rest.
Thomas à Becket (c. 1118-1170), the legendary medieval archbishop of Canterbury, was born and educated in London.
The Venerable Bede, (c. 673-735), an English monk and historian, was a brilliant scholar who was named a deacon at 19 and became a priest at 30.
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was born at New Haven, Connecticut, the descendant of one of the founders of the New Haven colony.
Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153), an eminent monk, theologian, scholar, preacher, and poet, was born in Burgundy, France.
Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), a distinguished Presbyterian minister, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Winfrid Boniface (680-755), the apostle of Germany, was born in Devonshire, England and became a monk after studying grammar and theology at Exeter. For a time he was a missionary to Frisia, an area comprised mostly of the modern Netherlands.
William and Catherine Booth (1829-1912 & 1829-1890) were the founders of the Salvation Army.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds (1835-1913) was a Methodist minister and renowned devotional writer. Bounds was born in Missouri and studied law as a young man.
David Brainerd (1718-1747) was born in Haddam, Connecticut. At the age of 14, he was orphaned.