George Holyoake

George Holyoake
Born
George Jacob Holyoake

(1817-04-13)13 April 1817
Died22 January 1906(1906-01-22) (aged 88)
Brighton, Sussex, England
Burial placeHighgate Cemetery, London
OccupationNewspaper editor
Years active1846–1861
Known forInventing the word secularism.
SpouseEleanor Williams
RelativesAustin Holyoake (brother)
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George Jacob Holyoake

George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851[1] and "jingoism" in 1878.[2] He edited a secularist paper, the Reasoner, from 1846 to June 1861, and a co-operative one, The English Leader, in 1864–1867.[3]

  1. ^ Holyoake, G.J. (1896). English Secularism: A Confession of Belief. Library of Alexandria. pp. 47−48. ISBN 978-1-465-51332-8.
  2. ^ Noah Feldman 2005, Divided by God. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 113.
  3. ^ Edward Royle, Victorian Infidels: The Origins of the British Secularist Movement, 1791–1866, University of Manchester, 1974. See Google Books.