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Samuel Chandler
1766May, 8

Samuel Chandler

Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (b. 1693)
Samuel Chandler (1693 – 8 May 1766) was a British Nonconformist minister and polemicist pamphleteer. He has been called the 'uncrowned patriarch of Dissent' in the latter part of George II's reign.

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