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Happy Birthday Laurence Sterne (24 Nov 1713 – 18 Mar 1768) novelist, and clergyman, best known for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
“Digressions, incontestably...are the life, the soul of reading...”
Laurence Sterne, whimsical Irish clergyman & author of The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, born #OTD 1713.
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Elizabeth Gaskell was buried in Knutsford #otd 1865 - here's a picture I took of her grave. Her life often mirrored Anne Bronte's. Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Holland, died when she was just a year old, and this clergyman's daughter was then raised by her mother's sister.
#BITD: Antonin Artaud (1896), the French artist who developed fascinating artistic theories on the Theater of Cruelty, the Theater of the Absurd, and surrealism. He wrote the script for the first surrealist film, The Seashell and The Clergyman. An amazing artist.
A minutes silence of you please to remember the 'Putney Disaster' of October 20th 1786, when a dopey local clergyman crashed his cart into the Thames, taking his wife with him for an unexpected second baptism
Great talk @guildhalllib this evening. Dr Peter Ross told us about what the Georgians ate for dinner and what dishes English clergyman James Woodforde listed in his diary. At the end we enjoyed a special "Wood Street cake" with cherry. 🍷#18century #georgians
The clergyman with the telescope is guessed to be Horace Walpole, his chair being pushed over by Stephen Fox. Walpole was a #Freemason and lecturer on optics.
However he had no known connections with this group, so the identification is still debatable! #williamhogarth
"An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men." #VanGogh
Hervey was a clergyman, botanist, phycologist, and bryologist - specialized in marine algae. https://t.co/bzXyS3pxDE
Hervey was a clergyman, botanist, phycologist, and bryologist - specialized in marine algae. https://t.co/bzXyS3pxDE
Swackett salutes Martin Luther King, Jr.; an American clergyman, activist, humanitarian, and leader.
swackett salutes an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.