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April 17, 1635
Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar (died 1699)
Edward Stillingfleet
Edward Stillingfleet was an English Christian theologian and scholar. Considered an outstanding preacher as well as a strong polemical writer defending Anglicanism, Stillingfleet was known as "the beauty of holiness" for his good looks in the pulpit, and was called by John Hough "the ablest man of his time".