John Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–72)

Clergyman and theologian. Chaplain of Guy’s Hospital, London, 1836–46. Professor of modern history and English literature, King’s College, London, 1840–6; of ecclesiastical history, 1846–53. Chaplain of Lincoln’s Inn, 1846–60. Perpetual curate of the chapel of St Peter’s, Vere Street, London, 1860–6. Knightbridge Professor of moral philosophy, Cambridge, 1866–72. Vicar of St Edward’s, Cambridge, 1870–2. Leader of the Christian socialist movement and founder of the London Working Men’s College.