Plymouth Brethren - Notable Members

Notable Members

• John Bodkin Adams — General practitioner and suspected serial killer (tried for one murder but controversially acquitted)
• Robert Anderson — Head of Scotland Yard and Christian author. Influenced many of the Brethren, though wasn't among them himself.
• Thomas John Barnardo — Took in destitute male and female street children; founded Barnardo's.
• Patricia Beer — Poet. Born into Brethren, left as adult.
• John Gifford Bellet — Prized Classics researcher of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Lancelot Brenton — Translator of what is probably the most widely available Greek-English edition of the Septuagint
• Stuart Briscoe — author, international speaker and Minister-At-large at Elmbrook Church, was raised Plymouth Brethren, in England
• F.F. Bruce — 20th Century Bible scholar and Christian apologist.
• Geoffrey Bull — Missionary to Tibet in the early 1950s
• Wilson Carlile — British evangelist who founded Church Army and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral
• Robert Chapman — Prominent among the Plymouth Brethren in the 19th Century
• Henry Craik — Worked with George Mûller in Bristol at Gideon and Bethesda Chapels from 1832
• Dr. Edward Cronin — Pioneer of homeopathy and one of the original Dublin brethren
• Anthony Crosland — Foreign Secretary in Britain's Labour Government, raised in Plymouth Brethren
• Aleister Crowley — Bisexual Occultist, drug user and practitioner of Magick raised within the Exclusive Brethren, referred in his memoirs to considering Brethren teachings and practices as essential for understanding his views. Known in his day as "the wickedest man in the world."
• John Nelson Darby — Famous preacher and father of modern Rapture doctrine
• James George Deck — Evangelist and missionary to New Zealand
• L.C.R. Duncombe-Jewell — raised as a Plymouth Brother.
• Jim Elliot — Missionary killed by Waodani Indians along the Curaray River, in Ecuador.
• Peter Fleming — Missionary killed by the Waodani Indians along the Curaray River, in Ecuador
• Ken Follett — Author of The Pillars of the Earth was raised in a Plymouth Brethren family.
• Roger T. Forster — Author, theologian and leader of Ichthus Christian Fellowship
• David Willoughby Gooding — Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queen's University Belfast and Christian author
• Edmund Gosse — Poet, author and critic. Raised as Plymouth Brethren and wrote the book Father and Son about his upbringing.
• Emily Bowes Gosse — painter, illustrator and author of religious tracts
• Philip Henry Gosse — Naturalist and marine biologist
• Anthony Norris Groves — Missionary to Baghdad and India
• John George Haigh — Serial killer
• David Hendricks — Convicted of killing his wife and children but acquitted in a retrial
• William John Hocking — Superintendent of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom
• Zane Hodges — Professor of New Testament Greek at Dallas Theological Seminary and co-author of the Greek New Testament according to the Majority Text
• John Eliot Howard — Chemist and quinologist
• Luke Howard — Chemist and meteorologist, the 'namer of clouds'
• Harry Ironside — Bible teacher, preacher and author.
• Garrison Keillor — Radio personality ("A Prairie Home Companion") and author; raised Plymouth Brethren; No longer associates with them.
• William Kelly — Prominent leader of the Exclusive Brethren in the late 19th Century
• Dr. Ferenc Kiss — anatomist, university professor, former head of the Institute of Anatomy in Budapest, Hungary
• Maurice Koechlin — Structural Engineer. Chief Engineer in the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
• J. Laurence Kulp — 20th Century geologist. Critic of Young Earth creationism
• William_MacDonald — Christian author and scholar, author of well known Believer's Bible Commentary
• C.H. Mackintosh — 19th Century author of Christian books
• Peter Maiden — Current head of Operation Mobilization
• Jim McCotter — Was a part of Brethren in early life. Left and was the founder of Great Commission Churches
• Ed McCully — Missionary killed by the Waodani Indians along the Curaray River, in Ecuador
• Brian D. McLaren — Prominent and controversial voice in the Emerging Church movement. Raised in a Brethren family.
• George Müller — Founder of the Bristol Orphanage and a stated teacher in Bethesda Chapel, Bristol
• Watchman Nee - Respected Leader in the "Little Flock" movement in China after being excommunicated by Exclusive brethren for "breaking bread with sectarians."
• Thomas Newberry — Translator of the Newberry Reference Bible, which uses a system of symbols to explain verb tenses
• Francis William Newman — Younger brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Excommunicated for denying the Divinity of Christ.
• Benjamin Wills Newton — Early leader of the assembly in Plymouth. Branded as a heretic.
• Frederick Handley Page — Pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft
• Luis Palau — Argentinian-American evangelist, raised in the Plymouth Brethren.
• Roger Panes — Part of Exclusive Brethren who, while being "shunned" by his congregation, killed his wife and three children, before committing suicide.
• John Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton — Missionary to Mesopotamia
• Joseph M. Scriven — Writer of the words to the hymn, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus".
• Arthur Rendle Short — Professor of surgery at Bristol University and author
• K.V. Simon – Recognized poet, hymn writer, biblical scholar and a pioneer of the brethren movement in India.
• William Gibson Sloan — Scottish missionary to the Faroe Islands.
• James Taylor, Jr. — Controversial leader of one Exclusive Brethren branch (a.k.a. "Taylorites") from 1953–1970
• Ngaire Thomas — Wrote the book, Behind Closed Doors, about her childhood abuse in the Exclusive Brethren.
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — English biblical scholar and theologian
• Elsie Tu, then Elsie Elliott — A Plymouth Brethren missionary in China before leaving the movement and becoming a prominent political figure in Hong Kong
• William Edwy Vine — Author of, Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, and numerous commentaries
• Arthur Wallis — Founder of the British New Church Movement, formerly in the Plymouth Brethren
• Jim Wallis — Founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine, raised in a Brethren family
• Charles Gidley Wheeler– Author of The Believer, and A Good Boy Tomorrow: Memoirs of a Fundamentalist Upbringing – Fleet Air Arm pilot, TV dramatist, novelist and philosopher – was raised in the Plymouth Brethren before breaking away at the age of 16.
• Smith Wigglesworth — Pentecostal preacher. Testified that he had received his grounding in Bible teaching within the Plymouth Brethren
• George Wigram — Wrote a Greek and English Concordance to the New Testament and the Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance to the Old Testament.
• Orde Wingate — British Major General, advisor to Hagana units during the 1930s
• Gordon Jackson (politician) — Scottish politician and QC

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