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John Henry Overton
1835–1903
Best known as an English cleric and church historian, he wrote clear, substantial works on the Church of England and its religious movements. His books helped later readers make sense of Anglican history across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey, John Henry Overton
About the author
Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later a fellow of Magdalen College, he built his career within the Church of England while also earning a reputation as a careful historian. He served in parish ministry, held a long connection with the volunteer movement, and eventually became Canon of Peterborough.
His writing focused on English church history, especially the development of Anglican thought and reform. Among his best-known books are The Anglican Revival and studies of the English Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, works valued for making a complicated religious past readable.
He also contributed biographies and reference writing, including work for the Dictionary of National Biography. Born in Louth, Lincolnshire, in 1835, he died in 1903, remembered as a churchman whose historical writing outlasted his own era.