Regency Personalities Series-William Stevens

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Regency Personalities Series

In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.

William Stevens
2 March 1732 – 7 February 1807

William Stevens was an English hosier and lay writer on religious topics from a High Church perspective, the biographer and editor of the works of William Jones of Nayland.

Born in the parish of St. Saviour’s, Southwark, he was son of a tradesman. His mother was sister of t...