The Clapham Sect
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The Clapham Sect was the name given to the main group of evangelical revivalists in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The most famousof them were Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay, Charles Grant, John Shore (later Lord Teignmouth), Thomas Babington, Henry Thornton and William Wilberforce. The name arose from the fact that many of them lived in Clapham, which was then a village three miles south of London, and attended Clapham Parish Church. In Parliament, however, they were mockingly referred to as "the Saints".