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Text Box: Eminent Unitarians Sir Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727 The greatest genius of his age, and perhaps of any age. Built the reflecting telescope. Discovered the laws of gravity and motion. Joseph Priestley 1733 - 1804 Important English scientist he discovered oxygen, electricity, chemistry. Was elected to the Royal Society for his work on Electricity and his work in chemistry. He was also a Doctor of Law. Above all, he was an outstanding Unitarian minister and reformer working to abolish slavery. Charles Dickens 1812 - 1870 Writer of many books with intriguing stories. His powerful pen was used mainly to campaign for love and kindness. A fantastic amount of good was done by his social comment on prisons, on factories, on child labour. And legal reforms on mental illness. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810 - 1865 Another great novelist whose writings campaigned for better conditions for the poor. She and her husband, Rev William Gaskell, worked to relieve the poverty of working people. James Martineau 1805 - 1900 He was one of the most outstanding philosophers and theologians of the nineteenth century. Gladstone acclaimed him as “the greatest of living thinkers”.