Charles Simeon was an English evangelical Anglican cleric.
19 Facts About Charles Simeon
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Charles Simeon was the fourth and youngest son of Richard Simeon and Elizabeth Hutton.
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Charles Simeon was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.
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Charles Simeon began his ministry as deputy to Christopher Atkinson at St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge.
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Atkinson introduced him to John Venn and Charles Simeon then met Henry Venn, confirming his evangelical and Calvinist views.
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Charles Simeon received the living of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, in 1783.
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Charles Simeon's father intervened with James Yorke, the Bishop of Ely, and he was appointed, under the age of 23, as a curate-in-charge for the bishop.
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Charles Simeon was at first unpopular, and indeed the congregation would have preferred John Hammond, who had been curate there, and became lecturer.
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Charles Simeon remained there for the rest of his life, eventually with a crowded church.
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Charles Simeon died, unmarried, on 13 November 1836, and was buried on 19 November in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
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Charles Simeon became a leader among evangelical churchmen, and was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society in 1799.
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Charles Simeon helped found the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews in 1809, and acted as adviser to the British East India Company in the choice of chaplains for India.
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In 1792, Charles Simeon read An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon by the French Reformed minister Jean Claude.
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Charles Simeon found that their principles were identical and used the essay as the basis for his lectures on sermon composition.
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Claude's essay inspired Charles Simeon to make clear his own theological position.
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Charles Simeon published hundreds of sermons and sermon outlines, still in print, that to some were an invitation to clerical plagiarism.
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Charles Simeon's chief work is a commentary on the whole Bible, entitled Horae homileticae.
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Charles Simeon established a trust for the purpose of acquiring church patronage to perpetuate evangelical clergy in Church of England parishes.
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Charles Simeon expanded the group of livings with money he had inherited.