Charles Simeon: A Biography

Charles Simeon (1759 – 1836) was an English evangelical Anglican clergyman who ministered in Cambridge for most of his life. His parishioners, angry their own favourite was not chosen for the position, locked their pews and did everything to make life difficulty for their new minister. 


But Simeon’s preaching of the Gospel and Christian character eventually won them over, and toward the end of his life his influence in Great Britain was said to rival the Archbishop of Canterbury’s.