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HT: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, martr and saint. Stained glass window of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral   Early life Becket was born about 1119, or in 1120 according to later tradition. He was born in Cheapside , London, on 21 December, which was the feast day of St Thomas the Apostle. He was the son of Gilbert Beket and Gilbert's wife Matilda. Gilbert's father was from Thierville in the lordship of Brionne in Normandy , and was either a small landowner or a petty knight. Matilda was also of Norman ancestry, and her family may have originated near Caen . Gilbert was perhaps related to Theobald of Bec , whose family also was from Thierville. Gilbert began his life as a merchant, perhaps as a textile merchant, but by the 1120s he was living in London and was a property owner, living on the rental income from his properties. He also served as the sheriff of the city at some point. They were buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral . One

 HT: 1795- Leopold von Ranke, father of modern historiography, author, and academic was born in Wiehe, modern Germany. Leopold von Ranke   Portrait of Leopold von Ranke,  by Adolf Jebens, 1875     Early life Ranke was born in Wiehe , then part of the Electorate of Saxony . He came from a family of Lutheran pastors and lawyers. He was educated partly at home and partly in the high school at Schulpforta . His early years engendered a lifelong love of Ancient Greek , Latin and Lutheranism . In 1814, Ranke entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects were Classics and Lutheran theology . At Leipzig , Ranke became an expert in philology and translation of the ancient authors into German . His teachers included Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann . As a student, Ranke's favorite authors were Thucydides , Livy , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Schelling , a

 HT: 1795- Leopold von Ranke, father of modern historiography, author, and academic was born in Wiehe, modern Germany. Leopold von Ranke   Portrait of Leopold von Ranke,  by Adolf Jebens, 1875     Early life Ranke was born in Wiehe , then part of the Electorate of Saxony . He came from a family of Lutheran pastors and lawyers. He was educated partly at home and partly in the high school at Schulpforta . His early years engendered a lifelong love of Ancient Greek , Latin and Lutheranism . In 1814, Ranke entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects were Classics and Lutheran theology . At Leipzig , Ranke became an expert in philology and translation of the ancient authors into German . His teachers included Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann . As a student, Ranke's favorite authors were Thucydides , Livy , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Schelling , a

HT: 1707- Charles Wesley, Church of England cleric and leader of the Methodist Movement was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. Early portrait of Wesley Early life Charles Wesley was the eighteenth child of Susanna Wesley and Samuel Wesley . He was born in Epworth , Lincolnshire, England, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford , where he was ordained. At Oxford, Charles formed a prayer group among his fellow students in 1727; his elder brother, John, joined in 1729, soon becoming its leader and moulding it in line with his own convictions. They focused on studying the Bible and living a holy life. Other students mocked them, saying they were the "Holy Club", "Sacramentarians", and "the Methodists ", being methodical and exceptionally detailed in their Bible study, opinions and disciplined lifestyle. George Whitefield joined the group. After graduating with a master's degree