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John Robert Walmsley Stott (1921 – 2011) was an English Anglican priest and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world.

Stott studied modern languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with double first-class honours in French and theology. At university, he was active in the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, where the executive committee considered him too invaluable a person to be asked to commit his time by joining the committee. After Trinity, he transferred to Ridley Hall Theological College, then affiliated to the University of Cambridge, to train for ordination as an Anglican cleric.

He later received a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity in 1983. (+info)

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