Joseph Butler
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Joseph Butler was an English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher, born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire. His principal works are the Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Ro
Portrait of Butler by John Vanderbank
Memorial to Bishop Joseph Butler, Durham Cathedral
Thomas Secker
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Thomas Secker was an archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.
Joseph Butler
…was born on 18 May 1692. The son of a Presbyterian linen draper, Butler was destined for the ministry of that church, and with the future archbishop Thomas Secker, entered Samuel Jones's dissenting academy at Gloucester (later Tewkesbury) for the purpose. There he began a secret correspondence with the Anglican…
Portrait by Joshua Reynolds