George Jacob Holyoake

               

George Jacob Holyoake
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George Jacob Holyoake, 1817-1906, the social reformer and founder of secularism.  He was the last person to be imprisoned in England on a charge of atheism. He wrote histories of the Co-operative Movement and edited The Reasoner.

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