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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “english churchman”. Today it says “english anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian”.
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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , FRS (13 December 1815 – 18 July 1881), known as Dean Stanley , was an English churchman and academic. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he was the author of a number of works on Church History . He was a co-founder of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
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english churchman
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english anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian
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