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George Jacob Holyoake, secularist social reformer, lived here from 1881 to his death in 1906.
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Brookwood Cemetery, the largest in the UK, is the resting place of secularist politician Charles Bradlaugh.
Bradlaugh died in 1891 as the House of Commons expunged the resolutions forbidding him to take his seat. He was buried at Brookwood in the presence of thousands of his admirers.
He is buried in a family grave in plot 108. The memorial used [...]
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Home of Charles Darwin.
On 17 September 1842 Darwin closed the door of Macaw Cottage, 12 Upper Gower Street, in London, and boarded his horse-drawn carriage for the two-hour journey to his new home, in the village of Down in Kent (now Downe in the Greater London Borough of Bromley).
Down House was originally a farmhouse, and later [...]
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Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the oldest colleges of the University of Oxford. Alumni include a large number of famous historical humanists:
Adam Smith – philosopher and economist
Sir Bernard Williams – philosopher
Olaf Stapledon – novelist and philosopher
Algernon Charles Swinburne – poet
Matthew Arnold – poet
Sir Julian Huxley – first president of the British Humanist Association
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