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- George Keith was a Scottish missionary. Born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to a Presbyterian family, he received an M.A. from the University of Aberdeen. This brilliant and accomplished figure joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 1660s, accompanying George Fox, William Penn, and Robert Barclay on a mission to the Netherlands and Germany in 1677. In 1685, three years after Barclay had been made the nonresident governor of the Province of East Jersey (part of the present-day American state of New Jersey), Keith traveled there to take the post of Surveyor-General. In 1686 he ran the first survey to mark out the border between West Jersey and East Jersey. He moved to Philadelphia in 1689 to serve as headmaster at the Friends School there. Around 1691 Keith decided that Quakers had strayed too far from orthodox Christianity and began to have sharp disagreements with his fellow believers. He first broke with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to form a short-lived group called the Christian Quakers in the colonies. After returning to England and meeting with less success in persuading Quakers to follow his lead, he was disowned by London Yearly Meeting in 1694. In 1699 he attacked William Penn and other Quakers as "Deists. " He was ordained an Anglican priest in March 1702. Sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of the Gospel, he spent 1702 to 1704 on a return mission to the Jerseys trying to win over Quakers and others, and invigorating Anglican congregations in Perth Amboy and Burlington. Returning to England he worked for the Church of England until his death on March 27, 1716, a rector at the parish of Edburton, Sussex.
- Джордж Кейт (австрийская карикатура) Джордж Кейт — шотландский дворянин, обычно назывался лордом-маршалом, как глава семьи, имевшей наследственное право на маршальский жезл в Шотландии, брат российского генерал-аншефа, гетмана Малороссии, позднее прусского фельдмаршала Джеймса Кейта. Он служил в 1712 г. под начальством герцога Мальборо, но после смерти королевы Анны высказался за претендента Стюарта, был подвергнут парламентом опале и заочно приговорен к смерти. В 1719 г. он принимал участие в испанской экспедиции в Шотландию, был разбит и бежал на материк, долгое время жил в Испании, затем в Венеции, а с 1747 г. в Берлине, где подружился с Фридрихом Великим, литературные интересы которого он разделял. Король в 1751 г. назначил его послом в Париж, в 1754 г. — невшательским губернатором, а в 1759 г. добился у английского правительства восстановления Кейта во всех его правах и владениях.
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- George Keith was a Scottish missionary. Born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to a Presbyterian family, he received an M.A. from the University of Aberdeen. This brilliant and accomplished figure joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 1660s, accompanying George Fox, William Penn, and Robert Barclay on a mission to the Netherlands and Germany in 1677.
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