John Nelson Darby — the curate who left, and never stopped moving.
He resigned his Wicklow curacy in 1827 rather than require converts to swear allegiance to the crown, and spent the next fifty years travelling Britain, Europe, North America, the West Indies and New Zealand, translating the Bible into English, French and German, and writing thirty-four volumes.
Darby was born in London in 1800, called to the Irish bar, ordained in the Church of Ireland and set to work in the Wicklow mountains, where he was said to have brought Catholics into the established church in hundreds until Archbishop Magee required converts to swear allegiance to the crown, at which point Darby resigned. From 1827 he never held a post, never drew a salary and never stopped travelling: Britain, Switzerland, France, Germany, the United States, Canada, the West Indies, New Zealand. He produced literal translations of the Bible into English, French and German, wrote hymns still sung far outside the movement, and left thirty-four volumes of collected writings notable for being nearly unreadable. He was also the author of every major Exclusive division of his lifetime, and Open Brethren accounts of him are markedly cooler than Exclusive ones.
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