1494: William Tyndale
William Tyndale, born around 1494 in Lollard Gloucestershire, translated the Bible into English during the Reformation and was martyred for it. He studied at Oxford…
Read moreMarie Durand (1711-1776) was from a poor Protestant (Huguenot) family, and lived in France during the viciously intolerant Catholic ancien regime. When the authorities arrested her father in 1728, he hastily arranged a marriage for his young daughter to a man twenty-five years her senior - in the vain hope that this man would be able to protect her.