Joseph Butler
Bishop of Durham, 1752
Joseph Butler, once called “the greatest of all the thinkers of the English Church,” was born at Wantage, Berkshire, May 18, 1692, into a Presbyterian family. He was educated at dissenting academies; but in his early twenties he decided to become an Anglican. He entered Oriel College, Oxford, in 1715, and was ordained in 1718.
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