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1805: Birthdate of Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd baronet.
He was the great grandson of jewish banking aristocrat Sampson Gideon.
In 1839 he became the chairman and treasurer of the Evangelical Voluntary Church Association, which fought for separation of church and state.  
Along with fellow "white" Ridley Haim Herschell and Baptist Edward Steane,
he founded the Evangelical Alliance in 1845, where they fought for religious liberty. The fact that they were just in time to show the world that Christians supported the jewish emancipation revolutions all throughout the Habsburg empire of Europe is surely just a coincidence.
In a stroke of irony for our time, he died, aged 58, at Bedwell from an adverse reaction to a smallpox vaccination.