General Reference Thomas Ken, a bishop of the Church of England, was born in Berkhampstead, England in 1637. He was educated at Winchester School and Oxford University, graduating in 1661. With six other bishops he refused to publish the “Declaration of Indulgence” issued by James II in 1688 and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. After his release he spent the rest of his life writing hymns and devotional works. He died in 1711.
Thomas Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1769. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University and entered the ministry of the Established Church. His evangelical preaching proved too strong for the Established Church and he was forbidden by Archbishop Fowler to preach in the city. He became an Independent and preached in various Dublin locations for more than sixty years.
William Hunter, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Ireland in 1811 but came to America as a child. He graduated from Madison College in 1833 and was for a number of years professor of Hebrew and Biblical Literature at Alleghany College.
William Walsham How, a bishop of the Church of England, was born in Shrewsbury, England in 1823. He graduated from Oxford in 1845 and was ordained to the ministry in 1846. He held various positions in the Church of England before he became bishop in 1888. He died in 1897.
Josiah Gilbert Holland was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts in 1819. He was a farmer’s son who had few chances for public education. Yet he succeeded in attending a high school at Northampton for a time and, at the age of 21, he began the study of medicine; graduating with a degree from Berkshire Medical College in 1844.
Reginald Heber, a bishop of the Church of England, was born in Malpas, England in 1783. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he early took the prize for both Latin and English poems. Ordained in 1807 he became the Missionary Bishop of Calcutta from 1823 until his death in 1826.
Marianne Hearn was born in Kent, England in 1834. She was a member of the Baptist Church and was on the editorial staff of that denomination’s religious periodical Christian World. At her death in 1909 she was called “one of the most honored women in the Baptist Church in England.”