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Clapham Sect
Clapham Sect (ˈklæpəm) n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc[C19: named after Clapham, a district of London]Clapham Sect
Clapham Sect, group of English social reformers, active c.1790–1830, so named because their activities centered on the home in Clapham, London, of Henry Thornton and William Wilberforce. Most of the members were evangelical Anglicans and members of Parliament. They included Zachary Macaulay, Thomas Babington, John Venn, James Stephen, and Hannah More. Known as the "Saints," they worked for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, improvement of prison conditions, and other humane legislation. They published a journal, the Christian Observer, and helped to found several missionary and tract societies, including the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society. Bibliography See E. M. Howse, Saints in Politics (1952, repr. 1971). |