Converts to Anglicanism from Presbyterianism

The list Converts to Anglicanism from Presbyterianism includes Cab Calloway, Bess Truman, Henry A. Wallace, John A. Macdonald and Sister Frances Dominica Ritchie. The list consists of 43 members.

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Cab Calloway

American singer and bandleader

Overview: Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor. He was associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was ...

Date of birth: 25 December 1907

Date of death: 18 November 1994

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Broadway actors 482T

The Cab Calloway Orchestra members 30T

Musicians from Rochester, New York 79T
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Bess Truman

First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953

Overview: Elizabeth Virginia Truman (née Wallace; February 13, 1885 – October 18, 1982) was the wife of President Harry S. Truman and the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She also served ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1885

Date of death: 18 October 1982

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: First Lady

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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19th-century American women 473T

20th-century American women 4,882T

Sigma Alpha Iota 39T
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Henry A. Wallace

Vice President of the United States

Overview: Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1888

Date of death: 18 November 1965

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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American political party founders 52T

Politicians from Danbury, Connecticut 22T

Wallace family of Iowa 3T
4.

Robert Borden

8th Prime Minister of Canada (1911–1920)

Overview: Sir Robert Laird Borden GCMG PC KC (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada, in office from 1911 to 1920. He is best known ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1854

Date of death: 10 June 1937

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Male

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Burials at Beechwood Cemetery (Ottawa) 44T

Canadian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 46T

Cornell family 85T
5.

John A. Macdonald

Prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891

Overview: Sir John Alexander Macdonald (10 or 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891). The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career ...

Date of birth: 11 January 1815

Date of death: 6 June 1891

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West 210T

Politicians who died in office 2,943T

Canadian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 46T
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Robertson Davies

Canadian novelist

Overview: William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1913

Date of death: 3 December 1995

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

Canadian male journalists 353T

Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 306T
7.

Dorothy Lee (theologian)

Australian theologian

Overview: Dorothy Ann Lee (born 1953) is an Australian theologian and Anglican priest, formerly dean of the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, a college of the University of Divinity, and continuing ...

Date of birth: 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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University of Divinity faculty 5T

Christian feminist biblical scholars 14T

Female biblical scholars 60T
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Sister Frances Dominica Ritchie

Anglican nun; British nurse and humanitarian

Overview: Sister Frances Dominica Ritchie (born 21 December 1942) OBE, DL, FRCN is a British nurse and Anglican Religious Sister, specializing in palliative care. She founded two hospices ("respices") for seriously ...

Date of birth: 21 December 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Nurse

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20th-century Christian nuns 359T

21st-century Christian nuns 81T

Palliative care in the United Kingdom 5T
9.

Louis P. Sheldon

American pastor

Overview: Louis P. Sheldon (1934 – May 29, 2020) was a former American Presbyterian pastor, and then Anglican priest, and chairman of the social conservative organization, the Traditional Values Coalition. He p ...

Date of birth: 1934

Date of death: 29 May 2020

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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2020 deaths 11,737T

American conservative people 1,080T

American Anglican Church in North America priests 3T
10.

Robert Neelly Bellah

American sociologist

Overview: Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1927

Date of death: 31 July 2013

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Sociologist

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McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies alumni 10T

Harvard College alumni 2,012T

Communitarianism 12T
11.

Dan Heap

Canadian politician and social justice activist

Overview: Daniel James Macdonnell Heap (1925–2014) was a Canadian activist and politician. Heap served as a Member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, a Toronto City Councillor, a political activist and ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1925

Date of death: 25 April 2014

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Activist

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Trade unionists from Manitoba 7T

Trade unionists from Ontario 43T

Anglican socialists 75T
12.

Ephraim McDowell

American surgeon

Overview: Ephraim McDowell (November 11, 1771 – June 25, 1830) was an American physician and pioneer surgeon. The first person to successfully remove an ovarian tumor, he has been called "the father of ovariotomy" ...

Date of birth: 11 November 1771

Date of death: 25 June 1830

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Doctor

Gender: Male

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19th-century surgeons 30T

18th-century surgeons 10T

19th-century American physicians 366T
13.

James Kemp

American bishop

Overview: James Kemp (May 20, 1764 – October 28, 1827) was the second bishop of the Diocese of Maryland, USA from 1816 to 1827.

Date of birth: 1764

Date of death: 28 October 1827

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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19th-century Anglican bishops in the United States 68T

Episcopal Church (United States) 60T

Scottish emigrants to the United States 662T
14.

Joseph Stevenson

British archivist

Overview: Joseph Stevenson (27 November 1806 – 8 February 1895) was an English Catholic archivist and editor of historical texts.

Date of birth: 27 November 1806

Date of death: 8 February 1895

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: British

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Alumni of University College, Durham 141T

19th-century English Jesuits 33T

Alumni of St Mary's College, Oscott 34T
15.

Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes

American civic leader

Overview: Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes (November 22, 1827 – January 19, 1913) was an American nurse and civic leader. She was a Confederate nurse during the American Civil War, volunteering at Wayside Hospital and ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1827

Date of death: 19 January 1913

Age: 85 (age at death)

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American women slave owners 50T

Episcopalians from New York (state) 20T

Episcopalians from North Carolina 21T
16.

Adrian H. Wood

American blogger and educator

Overview: Adrian Thorpe Harrold Wood is an American writer and educator. Wood worked as a community college curriculum specialist and a researcher for special needs-inclusive prekindergarten programs prior to writing ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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20th-century American women educators 373T

Salem Academy alumni 7T

Episcopalians from North Carolina 10T
17.

Allen J. Miller

American bishop

Overview: Allen Jerome Miller (April 10, 1901 – April 24, 1991) was an American prelate who served as the fifth Bishop of Easton between 1949 and 1966.

Date of birth: 10 April 1901

Date of death: 24 April 1991

Age: 90 (age at death)

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Nicki McNelly

Overview: Nicola McNelly (née Calder; born 1 May 1962) is a British Anglican priest. From 2012 to 2017, she was the Provost of St John's Cathedral, Oban in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Since 2017, she has been ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1962

Age: 63

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George Morison Robertson

American judge

Overview: George Morison Robertson (February 26, 1821 – March 12, 1867) was an early politician and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Born in Scotland, he settled in Hawaii in 1844 during the whaling era. During his ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1821

Date of death: 12 March 1867

Age: 46 (age at death)

Occupation: Judge

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William F. Faber

American bishop

Overview: William Frederic Faber (27 February 1860 - 21 July 1934) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Montana from 1916 to 1934.

Date of birth: 27 February 1860

Age: 165

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