A REALLY BIG LIST OF FAMOUS EPISCOPALIANS

[Pages:28]A REALLY BIG LIST OF FAMOUS EPISCOPALIANS

Dean Acheson - U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53) Douglas Adams - popular comedic science fiction author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyseries (devout Anglican until age 18, then agnostic, then atheist) James Agee - influential film critic Spiro Agnew - U.S. Vice-President under Nixon Edward Albee - playwright Eric Ambler - influential British spy novel author Chester A. Arthur - 21st U.S. President Gerald Ford - 38th U.S. President Fred Astaire - popular movie star and dancer Charles Babbage - influential mathematician whose theories were instrumental in development of computers Francis Bacon - influential scientific philosopher Tallulah Bankhead - movie star (identified herself as a "high Episcopalian agnostic") James Blish - acclaimed science fiction writer; author of A Case of Conscience; etc. Humphrey Bogart - movie star (lapsed) Bono - lead singer for Irish rock band U2; humanitarian Robert Boyle - father of modern chemistry Marion Zimmer Bradley - fantasy writer; The Mists of Avalon; etc. William Henry Bragg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work on X-ray diffraction Margaret Wise Brown - influential children's book author: Goodnight Moon; The Runaway Bunny; etc. (non-churchgoer; Presbyterian father; Episcopalian mother) George H. W. Bush - 41st U.S. President Charlie Chaplin - great silent film star, comedian, director; "The Little Tramp" (lapsed, agnostic) George M. Dallas - Vice-President under Pres. Polk Charles Darwin - father of evolutionary biology Bette Davis - movie star (mostly lapsed Episcopalian/Baptist family background) Richard Dawkins - influential evolutionary biologist (lapsed) Cecil B. DeMille - movie director, The Ten Commandments, etc. Philip K. Dick - acclaimed science fiction writer; movie adaptations of his work include Blade Runner; Total Recall; Minority Report; Paycheck; Impostor Marie Dressler - Academy Award-winning actress T.S. Eliot - poet Benjamin Franklin - a leading American Founding Father (raised Episcopalian; Deist) Hannibal Goodwin - perfected application of photographic emulsion to a roll of film, a key development in film technology that allowed motion pictures to be made Judy Garland - movie star Lillian Gish - movie star Cary Grant - movie star (lapsed) William Henry Harrison - 9th U.S. President Olivia de Havilland - Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949)

Thomas A. Hendricks - U.S. Vice-President under Cleveland Robert Hooke - English scientist; formulated the law of elasticity; proposed a wave theory of light Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President (raised Episcopalian; Deist) Edward Jenner - medical scientist who made vaccination for smallpox William Thomson, Lord Kelvin - important thermodynamics physicist C.S. Lewis - author, novelist, theologian, philosopher; Mere Christianity; The Chronicles of Narnia; etc. (born into Church of Ireland) John Locke - philosopher James Madison - 4th U.S. President Guglielmo Marconi - inventor of the radio James E. McGreevey - first openly GLBT U.S. governor (New Jersey); resigned after gay adultery/nepotism/security scandal Victor McLaglen - Best Actor Academy Award forThe Informer, 1935 (Anglican) Harriet Miers - White House general counsel; nominated by Pres. Bush to be on U.S. Supreme Court (never confirmed) James Monroe - 5th U.S. President Van Morrison - singer (Church of Ireland) Nevill Mott - Nobel Prize-winning physicist; explained the effect of light on a photographic emulsion Georgia O'Keeffe - famous American painter (nominal) Laurence Olivier - movie star (agnostic, but a dedicated Anglican) John Ostrander - comic book writer Franklin Pierce - 14th U.S. President Sidney Poitier - movie star (Anglican while young) Norman Rockwell - famous American painter (lapsed Episcopalian) Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt - 26th U.S. President (Dutch Reformed, but attended Episcopalian congregation) Dante Gabriel Rossetti - famous painter George Bernard Shaw - influential Irish playwright; received Nobel Price in Literature; founder of the Fabian Society (raised in Church of Ireland; later atheist, then mystic) Cordwainer Smith - science fiction writer David Souter - U.S. Supreme Court justice since 1990 John Steinbeck - prominent American novelist (The Grapes of Wrath; etc.) Laurence Sterne - influential author in 1700s; wrote Tristram Shandy (clergyman in Church of Ireland) Zachary Taylor - 12th U.S. President Alfred Lord Tennyson - influential writer Joseph J. Thomson - Nobel Laureate in Physics, discoverer of the electron, founder of the field of atomic physics John Tyler - 10 U.S. President Matthew Tindal - philosopher of deism Henry A. Wallace - U.S. Vice-President under F.D. Roosevelt

George Washington - 1st U.S. President Oscar Wilde - influential Irish playwright, novelist, poet, story writer (raised in Church of Ireland; deathbed conversion to Catholicism) Tennessee Williams - playwright William Butler Yeats - W.B. Yeats was an influential Irish poet; received Novel Prize for Literature (Church of Ireland)

Some additional U.S. Senators who were Episcopalians: Ted Stevens - Alaska Barry Goldwater - Arizona John McCain - Arizona (1987-) Blanche Lincoln - Arkansas Prescott Bush - Connecticut (1952-63) Bill Nelson - Florida Saxby Chambliss - Georgia Evan Bayh - Indiana William Dodd Hathaway - Maine (1973-79) Millard E. Tydings - Maryland (1927-51) Charles Mathias - Maryland (1969-87) Stuart Symington - Missouri (1953-76) Chuck Hagel - Nebraska Jim Exon - Nebraska (1979-97) James W. Wadsworth, Jr. - New York (1915-27) Robert A. Taft - Ohio 1939-53 Robert Latham Owen - Oklahoma (1907-25) Lincoln Chafee - Rhode Island Claiborne Pell - Rhode Island (1961-97) John H. Chafee - Rhode Island (1976-99) Kay Bailey Hutchison - Texas Phil Gramm - Texas (1985-2002) John Warner - Virginia Harry F. Byrd - Virginia (1933-65) Harry F. Byrd, Jr. - Virginia (1965-83) Chuck Robb - Virginia (1989-2001) Brock Adams - Washington (1987-93) Alan Simpson - Wyoming (1979-97) Pete Williams - New Jersey/ABSCAM scandal Some additional U.S. Representatives who were Episcopalians: Bill Alexander - Arkansas (1969-93) Bill McCollum - Florida (1981-2001) Jack W. Buechner - Missouri (1987-91) Jo Bonner - Alabama 1st

Don Young - Alaska (1973-) John Shadegg - Arizona 3rd Sam Farr - California 17th Rob Simmons - Connecticut 2nd Adam Putnam - Florida 12th Dan Miller - Florida 13th (1993-2003) Ander Crenshaw - Florida 4th John Mica - Florida 7th Jack Kingston - Georgia 1st David McIntosh - Indiana 2nd (1995-2001) Jim Leach - Iowa 2nd Bob Livingston - Louisiana 1st (1977-99) Charles Boustany - Louisiana 7th (2005-) James Symington - Missouri 2nd (1969-77) Rodney Frelinghuysen - New Jersey 11th Robert E. Andrews - New Jersey 1st Randy Kuhl - New York 29th (2005-) Cass Ballenger - North Carolina 10th Ralph Regula - Ohio 16th Chris Bell - Texas 25th Jeb Hensarling - Texas 5th James McDermott - Washington 7th Jim Sensenbrenner - Wisconsin 5th (1979-) Judy Biggert - Illinois 13th Brian Kerns - Indiana 7th (2001-2002) Some additional U.S. Governors who were Episcopalians: Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) - Governor and Senator from California Fife Symington - Arizona (1991-97) George Deukmejian - California (1983-91) Charles L. Terry, Jr. - Delaware (1965-69) Pete du Pont - Delaware (1977-85) Bill Weld - Massachusetts (1991-97) Kenny Guinn - Nevada Mark Sanford - South Carolina Carroll Campbell - South Carolina (1987-95) Thomas A. Riggs - Territorial Alaska (1918-21) Bob Wise - West Virginia Dave Freudenthal - Wyoming Stanley K. Hathaway - Wyoming (1967-75) U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices who were Episcopalians: John Jay

John Marshall Salmon P. Chase Melville W. Fuller Morrison R. Waite Harlan F. Stone Additional U.S. Supreme Court Justices who were Episcopalians: Alfred Moore Benjamin R. Curtis Bushrod Washington Byron R. White David H. Souter Edward T. Sanford George Sutherland Horace H. Lurton James F. Byrnes James Iredell James Wilson John A. Campbell John Rutledge Owen J. Roberts Peter V. Daniel Philip P. Barbour Potter Stewart Robert H. Jackson Rufus W. Peckham Samuel Chase Sandra Day O'Connor Stephen J. Field Thomas Johnson Thurgood Marshall Ward Hunt William H. Moody Willis Van Devanter

Gallery of Famous Anglicans

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556). Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the three Anglican Bishops martyred in Oxford in the sixteenth century under Queen Mary Tudor. Cranmer is best known for being the primary architect of the Book of Common Prayer as well as the author of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (orginally Forty-two Articles). He was largely responsible for the abolition of the distinctly Roman Catholic ceremonies, the destruction of images and relics, and the purging of medieval Roman superstitious heresies in the Church of England. He was burnt at

the stake on March 21, 1556, placing his hand first in the flames as an indication of his regret in signing recantations "for fear of death".

Charles Simeon (1759-1836). Evangelical divine of the Anglican Church during a time of great spiritual decline in the Church of England. He held his incumbency at Trinity Church in Cambridge for his entire career. At first he met with great resistance to Evangelical preaching but later seemed to have turned the course of the entire church towards revival. Read more on Charles Simeon in an article on our "Articles Page".

George Whitefield (1714-1770). Anglican Evangelist and leader in the early Methodist movement. He came under the influence of John and Charles Wesley while studying in Oxford and soon set about preaching in large open-air meetings. His fervent and eloquent preaching attracted significant notice and Whitefield became one of the leading figures in the eighteenth century Great Awakening. In his travels to America he became a friend of Benjamin Franklin and founded an orphanage in Georgia. He was the most striking orator in the eighteenth century Revival which swept through England, Scotland, Wales, and America.

Charles Fuge Lowder (1820-80) vicar of St. Peter's, London Docks. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained priest in 1844 and in 1851 became curate at the parish of St. Barnabas, Pimlico. In 1856 he joined the staff of St. George's in the East, where he took a leading part in the first regular mission work in East London, with Alexander H. Mackonochie as his colleague from 1858. His mission work expanded and he built the church of St. Peter's London Docks (1860-6). Fr. Lowder, as he was affectionately known, was instrumental in reviving a high degree of ritualism in worship, inspiring a renewed depth of spirituality among high church clergy, and was the primary founder of the Society of the Holy Cross. The 19 century Church of England was lifted from a state of lethargy and irreverence through the untiring labors of Charles Lowder. (Biographical commentary from the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church along with the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. S.D. deHart; Anglo-Catholics and the Vestment Controversy Literature)

Alexander Heriot Mackonochie (1825-87) Educated at Wadham college, Oxford, he was ordained in 1849, and served in Westbury and Wantage, before assisting Charles Lowder at St. George's in the East (London). By 1862 when he was put in charge of the newly built church of St. Alban's Holborn, he was recognized as a Ritualist and from 1867 onwards he was constantly persecuted for his ceremonial practices. He eventually resigned in 1882, though he continued to work in the parish until his sudden death in the Highlands in Dec. 1887. Fr. Mackonochie, though the most persecuted priest of the 19th century, filled St. Alban's with enthusiastic converts to Christ within the heathen district of Holborn. Complaints against his high church form of worship were never made by those within his church, but only by those outside who could not see the value of advanced ceremony accompanying the preaching of the Gospel and administration of the Sacraments. His efforts to secure frequent Communion and deeper spiritual devotion among the poor of St. Alban's under a great degree of persecution has left a memory of Fr. Mackonochie as "the martyr of St. Alban's." He served as the Master of the Society of the Holy Cross during many of these difficult years.

(Biographical material from the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church along with the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. S.D. deHart; Anglo-Catholics and the Vestments Controversy Literature)

William James Early Bennett (1804-1886) Anglican clergyman known best as the vicar of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge and St. Barnabas, Pimlico in the mid 19th century. Zealous to bring the Gospel to the inner city of London, Bennett persuaded the congregation of St. Paul's to establish a mission, (a chapel of ease) for the poor population in Pimlico. Such an undertaking marked one of the first efforts for inner city missionary work in the Victorian era. Bennett's work was greatly appreciated by the people of Pimlico, however despised by the low churchmen of the day. Among the complaints against Bennett's ceremonialism at St. Barnabas included the use of a cross in the building, the use of candles, an invocation before the sermon, and the procession of the clergy! Rioters were paid to disrupt services and threaten the welfare of the clergy and congregation, even the police could not keep peace inside the building during the terrible riots of 1851 at St. Barnabas! Though Bishop Blomfield of London sympathized with Bennett, he called for his resignation hoping that the rioting would cease with the removal of the church priest and visionary for inner city ministry. Bennett left London and zealously continued his work as vicar of Frome, writing pamphlets, learned treatises, and ministering to the people of his parish. Sadly, the controversy at St. Barnabas continued as the paid rioters were willing to ignore the pleas of the Bishop, to ignore the great ministry of preaching the Gospel to the poor, and to despise the beauty of worship within St. Barnabas. For an excerpt of one of Bennett's sermon's preached during the occasion of one of the worst riots, click here. (material furnished by Dr. S.D. deHart, SSC)

Some Additional Anglicans and Episcopalians

Absalom Jones Accepted Frewen Adam Loftus Adam Putnam Aelfric Aelfsige Aethelnoth Agnes Sanford Alan Simpson Albert Jay Nock Alexander Cruden Alexander Hamilton Alexander Stuart Alexandra Stoddard Alfred Chandler Alfred Lord Tennyson Alister McGrath

Alphege Alphonso Jackson Amelia Jenks Bloomer Ander Crenshaw Andrew Cavendish Andrew W. Mellon Ann B. Davis Ann Randolph Page Ann Tottenham Anne Bronte Anne L. Armstrong Anselm of Canterbury Archibald Campbell Tait Archibald Pitcairn Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells Arthur Peacocke Ashley Olsen Athelm Augustine of Canterbury Barbara Clementine Harris Barbara Harris Barry Goldwater Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Hoadly Benjamin Noel Young Vaughan Bernard Judd Bernard Montgomery Bertwald Bess Truman Bessie Delany Betsy Ross Betty Ford Bill Alexander Bill McCollum Bill Nelson Bill Weld Blanche Lincoln Bob Dole Bob Livingston Bob Wise Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury

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