Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (born 1609)

Gerrard Winstanley

English religious reformer, philosopher and activist (1609–1676)

Gerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England. Winstanley was the leader and one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers or Diggers. The group…