Alexander Hislop

Born in 1807, he was a Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland and spent much of his career in Arbroath. He is most widely remembered for The Two Babylons, a book that argued that Roman Catholic practices had roots in ancient pagan religion.

His writing was direct, combative, and shaped by the religious disputes of his era. Although his ideas reached a broad audience and remained widely circulated, they have also been heavily criticized by later historians and scholars.

He died in 1865, but his name is still closely tied to debates about church history, biblical interpretation, and the long afterlife of Victorian religious controversy.