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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 122 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES (1759-1836), See also:English evangelical divine, was See also:born at See also:Reading and educated at See also:Eton and See also:Cambridge. In 1782 he became See also:fellow of See also:King's See also:College, Cambridge, and took orders, receiving the living of See also:Holy Trinity, Cambridge, in the following See also:year. He was at first so unpopular that the services were frequently interrupted, and he was often insulted in the streets. Having lived down this See also:prejudice, he subsequently gained a very remarkable and lasting See also:influence among the under-graduates of the university. He became a See also:leader among evangelical churchmen, was one of the founders of the See also:Church Missionary Society, and acted as adviser to the See also:East See also:India See also:Company in the choice of chaplains for India. His See also:chief See also:work is a commentary upon the whole See also:Bible, entitled Horae homileticae (See also:London, 1819–1820). He died on the 13th of See also:November 1836. The " Simeon Trustees " were instituted by him for the purpose of acquiring church patronage in the interests of evangelical views. See See also:Memoirs of Charles Simeon, with a selection from his writings and See also:correspondence, edited by the Rev. W. See also:Carus (3rd ed., 1848) ; H.

C. G. Mollie, Charles Simeon (London, 1892).

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