biography
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| lived:
| (1757–1824)
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| biography:
| British religious fanatic and ex-naval officer, born in Newfoundland, E Canada. He announced himself in 1793 as the ‘nephew of the Almighty’, apostle of a new religion, the Anglo-Israelites. In 1795, for prophesying the destruction of the monarchy, he was sent to Newgate and subsequently to an asylum. |
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