exorcist and Puritan, was appointed curate of St Mary's Church, Nottingham in 1597, having earlier lived at Bulwell. (c. 1600–1672) Elizabeth Hooton, first female Quaker preacher, lived at Skegby. (1631–1713) John Barret, Presbyterian minister, was born and died in Nottingham. (1738–1816) Daniel Taylor, founder of New Connexion of General Baptists, was baptised in the River Idle at Gamston, Bassetlaw. (1762–1835) Luke Booker, cleric, poet and antiquary (1779–1852) Joseph Gilbert, Congregational writer and minister in Friar Lane, Nottingham. (1781–1868) Samuel Fox, Quaker philanthropist, was from Nottingham. (1800–1878) William Williams, missionary in New Zealand, and first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, was born in Nottingham. (1829–1912) William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, was born in Sneinton. (1847–1913) Mary Potter, Catholic nun, founder of the religious order of The Little Company of Mary, established its first convent in Hyson Green. She was proclaimed Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1988, and her body was returned to Nottingham Cathedral from Rome in 1997. (1860–1950) Herbert Kelly, Anglican priest, moved his Society of the Sacred Mission to Kelham Hall in 1903. (1878–1938) Constance Adelaide Smith, who revived the Anglican feast of Mothering Sunday, died in Nottingham in 1938. (1886–1952) Arthur Pink, U.S. evangelist and religious writer, was born in Nottingham. (Born 1929) Victor Alexander de Waal, cleric, religious writer and later dean of Canterbury, was chaplain of the University of Nottingham in 1963–69. (Born 1950) Kobutsu Malone, American Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest and prison reformer, was born Kevin Christopher Malone in Nottingham. (Born 1954) Stephen Need, former Dean of St. George's College, Jerusalem, was born in Nottingham. Technology and scholarship (1563–1614) William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame, was born in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. (1670–1735) Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, historian and travel writer, moved aged 17 to Wollaton Hall with her brother after disagreements with their stepfather. (1724–1816) Robert Darwin, botanist, brother of Erasmus, was born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire. (1731–1802) Erasmus Darwin, physician and natural philosopher, was born at Elston Hall. (1785–1852) Gravener Henson, Nottingham workers' leader and historian of the framework knitters, was born in Nottingham. (1793–1841) George Green (of Green's Mill), mathematician and physicist, famed for Green's theorem, was born in Sneinton. (1800–1873) Godfrey Howitt, physician, botanist and entomologist, was educated in Mansfield and an honorary physician at Nottingham's City Infirmary and General Hospital before emigrating to Australia. (1807–1893) Thomas Hawksley, civil engineer responsible for major water and sanitary improvements in