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Fox, W. J. (William Johnson), 1786-1864

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Personal name headingFox, W. J. (William Johnson), 1786-1864
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Variant(s)Fox, William Johnson, 1786-1864
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1786-03-01
Death date1864-06-03
Place of birthWrentham (England)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Profession or occupationOrators Clergy Periodical editors
Found inHis Finsbury lectures, 1834: t.p. (W.J. Fox)
NUC pre-56 (Fox, William Johnson, 1786-1864)
Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2021 (William Johnson Fox; born 1 March 1786 at Uggeshall Farm, Wrentham, near Southwold, Suffolk; died 3 June 1864 in London; an English religious and political orator; editor of the Monthly Repository; a frequent contributor to the Westminster Review; published works on political and religious topics; took charge of a congregation at Fareham in Hampshire in 1810; left within two years to become minister of the Unitarian chapel at Chichester; moved to London in 1817, becoming minister of Parliament Court Chapel; in 1824, moved the congregation to South Place Chapel, in Finsbury on the edge of the City of London, which had been built specifically for him; in 1830s, resigned his position and was removed from the Unitarian ministry after separating from his wife; set up a new household in the Craven Hill area of Bayswater and re-established himself as a preacher of rationalism)
Associated languageeng