Owenites were those followers of Robert Owen a social reformer and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement.
In the 1850s the Owenites adopted secularism. Notable secularist Owenites included:
- Josiah Gimson
- Henry Hetherington
- George Jacob Holyoake
- Charles Southwell who was an Owenite ’socialist missionary’
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