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Clapham sect
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Clapham sect An influential evangelical network whose activity in the early 19th cent. found a base in Clapham. The name was popularized and perhaps coined by Sir James Stephen in the
Edinburgh Review (1844). The banker Henry Thornton (1760–1815) provided the Clapham core but the ‘sect's’ dominant figure, their kinsman William
Wilberforce, also lived there (1797–1808). The original group, ranging from Granville
Sharp, the oldest, to Thomas
Clarkson, the last survivor, provided some 60 years of public service. Their greatest victories were the abolition of the
slave trade (1807) and of slavery itself in the British empire (1833).
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An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. By Milton Klein. (New Orleans...of his role in the evangelical "Clapham sect," his philanthropic activities...Americans. He was also a member of the Clapham sect, an informal gathering of...
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An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. By Milton M. Klein. New Orleans...Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect, is the first modern biographical...son Henry and the rest of the "Clapham sect," a subject which finds itself...
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An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. New Orleans, Louisiana: University...Thornton (1720-1790) was born at Clapham near London into a line that had...the Rev. Henry Venn arrived in Clapham, suggesting that Venn's arrival...
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A taxonomic revision of Helichrysum sect. Stoechadina (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...taxonomic revision of Helichrysum sect. Stoechadina, a section with...taxonomique des Helichrysum sect. Stoechadina, incluant toutes...which in the latest treatment (Clapham 1976) are recognised at the sectional level: Helichrysum sect. Helichrysum, mainly equivalent...
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 "Sun, The: Wheaton (IL)")
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Academy puts faith in old-fashioned approach to education
Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Wheaton (IL); 3/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...23 of their children to the school. Clapham has seven staff members. The school is named after the Clapham sect, an Anglican Evangelical group in London...British educator in the late 1800s, Clapham School's methodology makes it one of...
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 "Evening Courier (Halifax, England)")
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Former pupils played major role in abolition of slavery.
Newspaper article from: Evening Courier (Halifax, England); 2/6/2008; 619 words
; ...carried an article mentioning the Clapham Sect, of which William Wilberforce was...were the religious leader of the Clapham Sect and the Cambridge correspondent...adversaries of slavery. "The Vicar of Clapham and the religious leader of the...
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LOOKING AT SUBURBIA AS A UTOPIAN IDEAL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/3/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...almighty auto. Rather, there was first the gradual move to Clapham Common in the 1790s by such as the Thorntons, wealthy...just the world of godliness and morality it was for the Clapham sect; it is also a world of class privilege." What that...
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Hannah More: The First Victorian.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...longevity, Stott argues, made More one of the most influential figures in the Evangelical movement. Her ties with the Clapham Sect and others, gave her additional credibility, even as her views became more and more intractably conservative and...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Why I am NOT saying sorry for slavery; We should celebrate abolition says this churchman, not diminish our civilisation with constant, pointless apologies.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 3/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...in the image of their Creator. The African was 'a man and a brother' and could not, therefore, be enslaved. The Clapham sect, to which many of the campaigners belonged, was also interested in missionary work. It was hard for them to hold...
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Not great but definitely good
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...rich too, subtly flattering and catching them when hit by tragedy. She was the 'honorary man' of the evangelical Clapham Sect, the only woman to be attached in her own right rather than through kinship or marriage, the friend and godmother...
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Clapham sect
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Clapham sect. An influential evangelical network whose...the early 19th cent. found a base in Clapham, where ten of them are commemorated in...x2013;1815) and his family provided the Clapham core but the ‘sect's...
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Clapham Sect
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Clapham Sect. An informal group of wealthy Anglican...Evangelicals, many of whose members lived near Clapham and worshipped in its parish church. They included J. Venn, Rector of Clapham (1792–1813), Z. Macaulay...
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Clapham
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...district in south-west London. man on the Clapham omnibus the type of the average man...Lord Bowen (1853–94). Clapham Sect an early 19th-century group noted for...some of the chief members lived at Clapham .
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evangelicalism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...cousin Henry Thornton, John Venn, vicar of Clapham, and Charles Simeon formed the Clapham sect, whose aims were the reformation of manners...Fear of the French Revolution intensified the Clapham sect's attack (1797) on the moral laxity...
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William Wilberforce
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...already in touch with the abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp. The three formed the nucleus of a group ridiculed as the "Clapham sect" (after the location of the house where they held their meetings). They were joined by such slavery opponents as...
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