1. Charles Bray was a prosperous British ribbon manufacturer, social reformer, philanthropist, philosopher, and phrenologist.
11 Facts About Charles Bray
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Charles Bray became a prosperous ribbon manufacturer who owned the Coventry Herald newspaper.
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Charles Bray's father had died in 1835, leaving him and each of his seven siblings a substantial inheritance.
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Charles Bray married Caroline "Cara" Hennell on 26 May 1836 at Hackney in Middlesex.
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Charles Bray was a pantheist who argued that God cannot be separated from nature.
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Charles Bray's God has been described as a non-Christian pantheistic force.
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Charles Bray was a freethinker in religious matters and a progressive in politics.
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Charles Bray was a disciple of the phrenologist George Combe.
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Charles Bray Hennell was a writer on theological and philosophical topics whose most important work was An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity.
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Elizabeth, in the months immediately preceding her engagement and marriage to Charles Bray Hennell, had been under commission to translate into English the great theological treatise Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet by David Friedrich Strauss.
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On p iii of this book Bray reveals that Mary Hennell was the author of the Appendix in vol.