John Baskerville was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer. He was also responsible for inventing "wove paper", which was considerably smoother than "laid paper", allowing for sharper printing results.
John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.
Edward White Benson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 until his death. Before this, he was the first Bishop of Truro, serving from 1877 to 1883, and began construction of Truro Cathedral.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman Hunt. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co in the design of decorative arts.
Frederick Lee Shuttlesworth was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, initiated and was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, and continued to work against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961. He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007. He worked with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, though the two men often disagreed on tactics and approaches.
Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville was a French-born British Roman Catholic bishop. He was the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham from 25 March 1982 until his retirement on 12 June 1999, having formerly been a priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and chaplain of Fisher House, Cambridge.
Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Portsmouth from 1975 to 1984. He was the Bishop at Lambeth from 1984 and, additionally, the Bishop to the Forces from 1985. He ended his career as sub-dean at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1991 to 1996.
Geoffrey de Clive was a medieval Bishop of Hereford.
Mark Santer is a retired Anglican bishop. He is the father of television producer Diederick Santer.
Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney was a Church of England bishop who served in two episcopal posts; he was also a great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens.
Albert Peter Hall was the Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996 and the first area bishop under the 1991 area scheme.
The Martineau family is an intellectual, business and political dynasty associated first with Norwich and later also London and Birmingham, England. The family were prominent Unitarians; a room in London's Essex Hall, the headquarters building of the British Unitarians, was named after them. Martineau Place in Birmingham's Central Business District was named in their honour.
Michael Eric Marshall is a British Anglican bishop who served as the eighth Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England from 1975 to 1984.
Robert Arnold Schürhoff Martineau was a British bishop who was the first Bishop of Huntingdon and who was later translated to Blackburn.
Peter Geoffrey Atkins was a New Zealand Anglican clergyman, who served as the Bishop of Waiapu from 1983 to 1990.
Peter Austin Berry was an Anglican clergyman who served as the Provost of Birmingham Cathedral. He was educated at Solihull School and Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1963 he began his career as Chaplain to the Bishop of Coventry and was then successively Midlands Regional Officer to the Community Relations Communion and a Canon Residentiary at Coventry Cathedral before his 13-year stint at Birmingham Cathedral.
Samuel Greenfield Poyntz was an Irish bishop and author in the last third of the 20th century.
Donald Arthur Richard Caird was an Irish bishop who held three senior posts in the Church of Ireland during the last third of the 20th century.
Charles Allan Shaw was an Anglican priest in the last third of the 20th century.
Kenneth Brian Wilson OBE was a British theologian, philosopher and teacher. He was a Minister in the Methodist Church of Great Britain; Principal of Westminster College, Oxford; and wrote extensively in the areas of theology, philosophical theology and ecclesiology.
