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Overview page. Subjects: Warfare and Defence — Maritime History.
Of a ship, to sink at sea, generally understood to be by the flooding of its hull either through springing a leak or through striking a rock. Other causes of a ship sinking, such as...
Groves, Anthony Norris (1795–1853), missionary and a founder of the (Plymouth) Brethren
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Christian and Quasi-Christian Cults and Sects; Early Christianity; Religion and Education. 984 words.
Groves, Anthony Norris (1795–1853), missionary and a founder of the (Plymouth) Brethren, was born at Newton, Hampshire, on 1 February 1795. His staunchly Anglican parents had lost their...