biography
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Maurice, (John) Frederick Denison
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| lived:
| (1805–72)
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| biography:
| Theologian and writer, born in Normanston, Suffolk, E England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, left in 1827 without a degree, and began a literary career in London. He wrote one novel, Eustace Conway, and for a time edited the Athenaeum. He took orders in the Church of England, and became chaplain to Lincoln's Inn (1841–60). He became professor of literature (1840) at King's College, London (1840), then of theology, and at Cambridge was professor of moral philosophy (1866). With Thomas Hughes and Charles Kingsley he founded the Christian Socialism movement, and he was the founder and first principal of the Working Man's College (1854). |
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