Joseph Estlin (Estlin) Carpenter (1844–1927)

Unitarian clergyman and professor. Son of William Benjamin Carpenter and his wife Louisa. Educated at University College, London, and Manchester New College, London. Minister at Bristol, 1866, and Leeds, 1869. Professor of ecclesiastical history, comparative religion, and Hebrew at Manchester New College from 1875; principal, 1906–15. Provisional committee member of the Association of Liberal Thinkers, 1878.